The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard

Marvellous - quite literally. A thrilling story of adventure amongst high mountains, deep mysteries, elusive animals and vertiginous facts -- Charles Foster, author of The Edges of the World A brave, unique field-study of the most extraordinary cat on the planet -- the Snow Leopard -- elusive, Spartan and beautiful -- Desmond Morris Enchanting. The author is a most amiable guide on the mountainside, and this deeply informed book gave me hope for the future of conservation -- Sara Wheeler Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi has spent his adult life studying, following and trying to protect snow leopards. The Ghost of the Mountains takes readers into the field, high in the Himalayas. The story it tells is by turns beautiful, terrible, and encouraging -- Elizabeth Kolbert What a thrilling and intrepid story. Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi takes us into the icy heights of the Himalaya, tracking the elusive snow leopard and bringing to life both this solitary animal and the threatened world it inhabits. Beautifully told, it's a tale of beauty, drama and wild landscapes but also one of the entangled lives of snow leopards, their prey and the humans who share their terrain -- Andrea Wulf The Ghost of the Mountains is a thrilling and engrossing adventure, written in passionate prose by one of the world's foremost conservationists of the snow leopard. Kulbhushansingh's deeply grounded praxis in the Himalayan landscape imbues his passages with a unique and strange power. Like the experienced mountaineer that he is, his writing too constantly straddles across the huge challenges of conservation, political complexity and community struggles in the mountains, and the haunting beauty of the snow leopard in its habitat. In that sense, for me, he surpasses Matthiessen -- Yuvan Aves