Poor Kathmandu: Interviews with people living in poverty in Kathmandu

The author of this book, Bo Belvedere Christensen, has visited Kathmandu and Nepal in general more than 20 times. Usually, he comes on expeditions to climb mountains, but through time he has come to know a lot of people especially from the Capital. Many of these are poor people, some of whom live in the streets of Kathmandu. During a longer than normal stay in Kathmandu Bo decided to start writing a book about these poor people and went around the town together with a Nepalese interpreter as many of the poor doesn’t speek anything else but their own tongue. With his camera he spent weeks photodocumenting the lives of the poor and finally he finished this book. Bo has written 14 books about mountaineering mostly in danish. His first book about an expedition to Ama Dablam was published in 1988 by the biggest danish publisher Gyldendal. Bo has followed his passion and is now a full time professional mountaineer, guiding, leading expeditions, lecturing, documenting in photography and writing his mountaineering. He is well on the way with his most ambitious project so far, climbing the 14 fourteen peaks in The World above 8000 meter.