“It’s quite a remote area here!” Thundu Sherpa, village teacher and owner of a small lodge in Simigaon (lit.: bean-village), at the foot of the sacred mountain Gauri Shankar, is happy to see tourists. A few hundred come up each year to visit the quiet Rolwaling Valley, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. A small additional income is generated for the family, but not much more, as most tourists book a fully organized trek in Kathmandu or are on their way to one of the eight-thousanders beyond the Tashi Laptsa Pass in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park.