Sep 6, 2026 6 min read
Dharapori, Humla: The First Stage North of Simikot
Dharapori sits lower than Simikot, because the route north begins by dropping off the ridge into subtropical forest before the…
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Dharapori sits lower than Simikot, because the route north begins by dropping off the ridge into subtropical forest before the…
Read more →Yangar and Muchu are the stages between Yalbang and Yari, roughly 3,600 to 3,800 m, where forest gives way to juniper and…
Read more →Yari sits at about 3,850 m, the last inhabited place before the border zone north of Humla. Flat-roofed stone houses built…
Read more →Hilsa sits at 3,720 m on the Nepal side of the border opposite Purang in Tibet: concrete customs buildings, a suspension…
Read more →Purang, known in Tibetan as Taklakot, is the town on the Chinese side of the border opposite Hilsa in Humla. It is the trading…
Read more →Beyond the last road head in Karnali, freight travels by mule. What the caravans carry, the routes north from Jumla and Simikot,…
Read more →Nettle cloth, felted wool blankets and patterned dhaka. Who weaves in the far western hills, on what looms, what the cloth is…
Read more →The world's largest honeybee nests on open cliffs in the Nepali hills, and its spring honey is genuinely toxic. How cliff honey…
Read more →Every May and June whole villages in Dolpa, Humla and Mugu move up to the yarsagumba pastures and camp there for weeks. How the…
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