https://h4rt.squarespace.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1494540648662-TNWLZ9PXGLFDGXRG38DJ/DSC_0020.JPG Photos The 2009 team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1550874295051-A3TGQA25BQ77IXG1CEHP/Yulong+Mountain.jpg Photos Yulong Mountain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1494540441825-R90ZNN4WJ8HVAN9BBHHC/DSCN0798.JPG Photos 2009 team: Hai Xian, Li Hong, Jan Salick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1494540634723-BID8YINQWLGZ3Q46BUB9/DSCN1495.JPG Photos Rheum nobile, 'aristocrat of the mountains' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1589571792863-OJ16VLMTGMRU6U1NRHSK/8+-+Towards+Jomolhari.jpg Photos Towards Jomolhari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1741903791430-KCUHU2E4RDMTURM1CLE7/NGS+proof+-+87++-+full+team+final+site+Bhutan.jpeg Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1741904258471-W1LWCY5KAX5HF4Q721RU/NGS+proof+-+1+-+from+base+camp+Nepal.jpeg Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1741904459044-U53LBVLT0K081Z84IJ6I/China+-+2024+-+2.jpeg Photos https://h4rt.squarespace.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2017-09-22 https://h4rt.squarespace.com/2014 daily 0.75 2017-09-22 https://h4rt.squarespace.com/about daily 1.0 2026-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/a6053177-5f08-4272-9f3b-e75b29f49121/ajb2.1272.fp.png Work https://h4rt.squarespace.com/kcj daily 0.75 2017-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513282558075-7DPL9Y6STPNUHNM6X1XI/P1330347.jpg KCJ 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285573839-QOKHEUJ01L4D5FX8VHK0/Nepal+-+15+-+cardamom+fields.jpg KCJ 2017 Large cardamom ( Amomum ) has become one of the biggest cash crops in eastern Nepal, bypassing the tea for which the region is famous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285573732-HHZY4UOYPZ738WXRKENB/Nepal+-+16+-+rice+and+millet+fields.jpg KCJ 2017 Higher up, rice and millet fields predominate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285587542-7PSM4L86IJLPJ7B10C2I/Nepal+-+40+-+vertical+villages.jpg KCJ 2017 Villages cling to the sheer sides of the gorges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285590872-TLJ54XGETONNE2L407AE/Nepal+-+42+-+gorge+flora+-+bladderworts.jpg KCJ 2017 Plants cling to the gorge walls too – here is a Utricularia species, which is used to treat wounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285623669-ND1XX34PTPIZC3FOQHE8/Nepal+-+46+-+codonopsis.jpg KCJ 2017 the students collect a Codonopsis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285619485-9AFR9VMO5WGBR2V7SFYB/Nepal+-+47+-+codonopsis+%282%29.jpg KCJ 2017 Vandana Awashti with the Codonopsis specimen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285597593-HVF67V1OS8JX73COI8XD/Nepal+-+45+-+swertia.jpg KCJ 2017 Swertia multicaulis, seen at ~2600 meters elevation as we climbed the gorge. The rhizome has been used in Nepal to treat fever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285634039-CDQ5750X0KLFVXAFWHRX/Nepal+-+51+-+much+more+temperate.jpg KCJ 2017 climbing into more temperate vegetation around 3000 meters elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285637131-4N6PFOTTTMEKF0RYFAES/Nepal+-+53+-+first+rhododendron.jpg KCJ 2017 Rhododendron lepidotum is a species I know well from study how its flowering time responds to climate change in the Chinese Himalaya. In Nepal, it's not just a sign of climate change, but is also used as incense and in medicinal teas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285684452-QPBR27VVHHMU4RI5B9MC/Nepal+-+80+-+kitchen+%282%29.jpg KCJ 2017 our highest camp, at 4200 meters elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285718712-A9927P0TRMWC9PKP2S5G/Nepal+-+99+-+Arenaria+glanduligera.jpg KCJ 2017 Arenaria glanduligera, or ཨ་ཀ྄ོང་། which is used in Traditional Tibetan Medicine for lung complaints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285777077-RH1ZRJGXQ2TPGYV16BKJ/Nepal+-+114+-+tea+to+fuel+us.jpg KCJ 2017 tea to keep us going at the summit sites https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285819686-K5NJSL0KUZX4YWZZDM8G/Nepal+-+122+-+final+day.jpg KCJ 2017 a happy team about to complete the final site https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513285851368-C3V4GW5L1K86I7ZRWHD4/Nepal+-+152+-+%2522you+can+clearly+see+here%2C+temperature+fluctuation+in+2008...%2522.jpg KCJ 2017 one of the village girls offers her thoughts on our seven years of recorded temperature data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5914db8737c5810445149fcb/1513287693378-3SU5RKCUY22E0ZZSSC6O/P1330404.jpg KCJ 2017 Elsa, Yeggye, Pravin, James and Pasang take one of the 56 measurements that survey each summit, defining the elevation-aspect sections so that we can make comparable plant lists after seven years.