Travels in Nepal

A traveller sets out to discover what impact foreign aid has had on Nepal and to explode the myth that such aid always helps to alleviate poverty. He praises the efforts of the King Mahendra Trust for conservation but reserves harsh criticism for some of the misplaced hydro-electric schemes.

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Nepal - a land where a chance encounter may bring you across the ritual sacrifice of a goat, the stoking of a funeral pyre on the banks of the river or sacred bulls lumbering slowly down a street in Kathmandu. Charlie Pye-Smith's travels take him east to Namche Bazar where, within sight of Everest, he discovers a phobia for heights: west down the well- trodden Kali Gandaki gorge and in search of the elusive Chepang people: south to the thin ribbon of low-lying land - Ther Terai - which runs along the Indian border.