Abstract
In the year 1973, the student of Zen Buddhism, author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen accompanied the naturalist and writer George Schaller on a voyage of self-discovery to the remote region of Dolpo in Nepal. He wrote a book titled ‘The Snow Leopard’ describing his adventures and travels combining descriptions of nature with introspections of self-discovery. The book can serve to introduce a number of themes to medical students and other readers. Here I concentrate on disability, death, emigration of doctors from Nepal and other developing nations and the problem of infectious diseases. In the ‘Westward’ section in which the author describes his journey to the town of Dhorpatan the following excerpt describes a crippled child negotiating the stone staircases of Nepal’s hill villages. He writes,
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