The setting for Peter Matttheisson's, “The Snow Leo-Pard”, and Dolpo forms a 2100sq mile plateau inside Nepal 's north-west frontier with Tibet . Much of Dolpo is preserved in the She Phoksundo National Park , & is a restricted area requiring a special permit (see above). Its 4500 Tibetan speaking inhabitants live in 35 scattered villages & are descendants of Tibetan migrants who arrived before the 10 th century. Dolpo's remoteness and access restrictions make this one of the few areas of traditional Tibetan culture flourishing in the Himalayas today.
As awe-inspiring as its big brother “ Upper Dolpo ”. Yet less demanding on the trekker and logistically more manageable. Here the valleys contain luxuriant vegetation, mainly blue pine, spruce, cypress, poplar, deodar fir & birch as well as the quercus species.
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