In May 2022, Lance Richardson set out across the Himalayas of Nepal with Gavin Anderson, a Scotsman who runs an ethical trekking company called Nomadic Skies, and James Appleton, an En­glish photographer, to retrace the legendary journey described in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard (1978). Their destination was Shey Gompa, the Crystal Monastery, in Dolpa District near the edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

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Photographs and footage by James Appleton.​

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