People: Beding Village, Rolwaling Valley

Taken during June 1969 these photographs taken in eastern Nepal in Beding village located in the isolated valley of Rolwaling which sits directly underneath the 7,200 metre mountain of Gauri Shankar. The village people are a combination of Sherpas and immigrant refugee Tibetans. The photographs include nine showing the Tibetan border village of Lambogar, the last before entering Rolwaling valley. Beding village deep within Rolwaling is isolated and charming. The people herd yak, grow root vegetables and potatoes and support their local temple, shown here being re-plastered. The sister of the Lama, herself a nun, weaves textiles in the monastery courtyard. Others show young herding boys, cleaning vegetables, burying potatoes before winter, and the local carpenter.