Salim Reshamwala

So Kathmandu, Pokhara are the valleys in the mid-hills, right?

But if you go further north, then we're talking about the mountains.

And for a regular audience, like, mountains and hills are different.

One of my American friends from college came to visit.

And then she lands in Kathmandu, and Kathmandu is surrounded by hills for us, but apparently mountains for a lot of people.

I told her, like, yeah, you'll see some hills, like smaller hills from Katmandu.

And she just comes out of the door from the aircraft and she was like, what the hell?

These are the craziest mountains I've ever seen.

But you go further up north and then the real mountains, forest mountains have to be snow-capped, right?

So, like, they have to be white and silvery.

So, basically... I love that distinction that, you know, if it's not white, snow-capped, and silvery, maybe some clouds around it, then...

It's a hill to y'all.

Yeah, yeah.

A very, very, very important district.

Ranjan and Nayan are going to help us find out how these bridges, these connectors of mountains being born again and again are changing the country.

So...

Nepal is by area, it's a pretty small country, but it stretches from east to west.

So north-south of Nepal is very, like as the crow flies, very short.

But within these like sort of less than 200 kilometers of average distance between north and south, you have tremendous geographic diversity.

Both Ranjan and Nayan grew up in Nepal.