Poor Kathmandu: Interviews with people living in poverty in Kathmandu

By Bo Belvedere Christensen

Kathmandu is a wonderful place to visit, but when you wander around in the city you meet a lot of poor people; beggars, street vendors, holy men, and a lot of others. How do these people get by? Can they afford to send their children to school? Where do they live? How is their family life?

These and a lot of other questions the author posed himself after visiting Kathmandu many times, and he decided to find the answers. He spend a long time in Kathmandu only to ask the poor themselves, take their pictures, and sometimes visit their homes.

This book does not intend to answer the maybe most important question; how do we change the situation of poverty in Kathmandu and even more importantly, the rest of Nepal. The book can only be regarded as a personal experienced situation report, but it gives an insight into the situation and into the lives of a few people living in extreme poverty.

The author is a writer, photographer and mountaineer who has visited Nepal many times, often to climb, but he has a personal liking to the poor people of Kathmandu.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jul 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9788771707229

Bo Belvedere Christensen

The author is a mountaineer, climber guide, and photographer who has spent more than 45 years climbing in the Himalayas, Africa, The Alps, The Andes and many other places. He has summited 3 peaks above 8000 meter, 3 above 7000 meter and more than 20 above 6000 meter. He guides both mountaineering expeditions and trekking trips. Beeing a keen and capable photographer he always documents his trips in both images and video and have so far published 20 books on climbing, trekking and mountaineering and had all his larger movie projects shown on national television.

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