Lingcho: A Horrific Existence
This story describes the situation of fieldwork in 2019. I was able to participate in the snow leopard research team that Shey Phoksundo National Park and WWF Nepal were working on together. I was overjoyed. I was in the field studying snow leopards for the second time, following my bachelor's thesis in 2018. We left Kathmandu for Dolpa just a few days after our main festival, Dashain. We left for Jumla the next day, after a one-day interaction program in Nepalganj. I had to travel through Jumla to reach my work block in Jagdgulla. Despite being from Karnali, I have never had the opportunity to visit the western Himalayas. My grandfather tells me that some of my ancestors moved from Jumla to Salyan before 13 generations. I was overjoyed to see where my ancestors were born. My friend Amrit, my senior Purnaman, and I were the three people assigned to work in the Jagdulla block of Shey Phoksundo National Park. When we arrived in Jumla, we were served a meal made of Marsi rice, which ...