Thehe Village Photo Gallery

photographs by Cora Edmonds

A view of Thehe Village from the path that leads from Simikot.

Cut into the jagged mountains of the Himalayas are hundreds of tiny terraces on which grow barley, millet, buckwheat, beans, squash and even rice at this formidable altitude.

Children participating in the work of pounding rice.

A woman gathers dung for fuel. Most people in Thehe (in the entire Humla region) depend entirely on wood/dung fires for heat and cooking.

The village of Thehe is suffering from overcrowding, which puts pressure on what was already meager resources. The villagers live in these huts made of wood, mud, and stone.

A five hour walk from Simikog , is the village of Thehe. 450 families live here, surviving bitterly intense winters and growing all their food in terraced fields. Theirs is a true hand-to-mouth existence.

This woman wears three coins – one from China, one from India and the smallest from Nepal, a unique visual metaphor of Nepal's difficult place between these two world giants.

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