Kathmandu, April 20 -- I was born and raised in Tsum Nubri's Chhokangparo village in Upper Gorkha, the holy valley famous for its Kyiumolung pilgrimage. From when I was in primary school, we used to look up to the mountain above us that we called Lombo.

It was only after I came to the city for my higher studies, that I realised the peak above my village is also visible from Kathmandu where people call it Ganesh Himal.

From Kathmandu I went on to study architecture in Germany and graduated from the School of Architecture at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt in Germany, and at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Spain.

I returned not just to Nepal, but to the land of my birth-drawn by a spiritual connection to the holybeyulv...