Kathmandu, March 9 -- Sirjana Sizzu does not recall having stayed in any one place for any length of time since she left her home in West Rukum to travel to Upper Dolpo in 2020.

Sirjana had an affinity for the great outdoors from a young age, and graduated in forestry from a college in Kathmandu. She wanted to get a government job, but was unsuccessful twice.

We reached Sirjana on the phone one recent afternoon in Bardia, where she had just returned from a safari. Months earlier she was 4,100m up at Panch Pokhari in Sindhupalchok.

"I go where my whim takes me, I might be in one district today and another tomorrow, home is wherever I happen to be," says the 27-year-old travel content creator. "I did not see a tiger but I definitely hea...