On the slopes of the Himalaya grows something which is worth its weight in gold. It’s called Yarsagumba and looks like a small, yellowish-brown tuber, about the length and width of a pinky finger, but ...

A family can easily earn as much as Rs 600,000 during yarsagumba harvesting season from mid-May to mid-July, making the unique Himalayan fungus a major agent of change in living standard of the ...

Villages empty as Nepalese families trek to alpine meadows seeking caterpillar-fungus worth up to £20,000 per kg ...

TRIPURAKOT, DOLPA: The annual Yarsagumba harvest season will officially start in the himalayan district of Dolpa from May 15. According to Shey Phoksundo National Park, the permit letters would be ...

Surkhet, Nov. 24 -- When Dan Bahadur Giri looks at his village in Sukadhik in ward 8 of Khatyad Rural Municipality in Mugu district, he says it no longer resembles the place he grew up in. "Until 2000 ...

A typical landscape of yarsa, alpine meadow above treeline and below snowline. Pictured here is Manang’s Chuli Peak. All photos: ACHYUT TIWARI A young girl in the Ray-Ban sunglass is singing along to ...

A gold rush mentality has attached to a fungus known as the ‘Himalayan Viagra,’ to the detriment of local communities. In Nepal, caravans of people can be seen climbing higher up the snow-capped ...

In the heart of the majestic Himalayan mountains, a rare and potent herb known as Yarsagumba is also referred to as the Himalayan Viagra, renowned for its adaptogenic properties, acting as a natural ...