Don Messerschmidt
Don Messerschmidt is an anthropologist and writer who has spent several decades studying local cultures, including pilgrimage, in the Nepal Himalaya.
High Himalayan hype
Infatuation with Everest has inspired Everest-sized absurdities.
May 11, 2012
A Himalayan mystery – solved?
The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a widely appreciated mountaineering satire — but of what, exactly?
Dec 01, 2011
Latest Articles
The quintessential prey
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
The price of immunity
Cost comparisons of COVID-19 vaccines across the region.
Bordered by violence
On borders and maps as concrete sites of state violence.
The caravan of Sanuman
Translated excerpt from Dor Bahadur Bista’s Nepali-language novel ‘Sotala’.
