Knowledge production is a collaborative process.

I examine human dimension of climate change in the high Himalaya from an Indigenous perspective.

I use multidisciplinary approach in my research projects, and consider plural epistemologies as a necessity, not a choice, in addressing contemporary human problems.

My current research applies community-based approach to exploring the possibilities of collective survival on warming planet. It builds on my nearly two decades of climate change study in the Himalayas and long-term ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home in the mountains and in the diaspora.

I believe that our sustainability as a Sherpa people in the wake of climate change depends on keeping our songs and stories about people, places and things alive for the next generation.

In picture: Declan, Maicen and Pasang in front of sacred Gokyo Lake, May 2023.