El leopardo de las nieves

In the fall of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen and the zoologist George Schaller undertook an expedition to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau to study the habits of a little-known animal: the bharal, or Himalayan blue lamb. But his real hope was to see the most beautiful and rarest of big cats: the snow leopard. For Matthiessen, entering the land of Dolpo will mean much more than a naturalistic expedition or an adventure. It will be stripping yourself of the advantages and ties of civilization, living with men and landscapes in their most elemental beauty, walking the paths of Buddhism and Zen.