Carroll Dunham is a Princeton University anthropologist, writer, documentary film maker, yoga instructor and director of Wild Earth. A cooperative producing luxury Himalayan herbal products in Kathmandu. She has authored the books: Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet-In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon, Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life, The Hidden Himalayas, Abbeville Press, N.Y., N.Y. She has led cross-cultural trips throughout South Asia, Tibet and Mongolia.

Thomas L. Kelly is a native of Santa Fe, has lived in Nepal since 1978. Formerly a Peace Corps volunteer and Care Program officer, he has been a renowned professional photographer since 1985 and is now a documentary film maker. He has led cross-cultural trips throughout South Asia and Mongolia. His photographic books include Abbeville's Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet-In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon, Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life, The Hidden Himalayas, Kathmandu; City on The Edge of the World; and with Cuerpos Pintados, Chili, Sadhus-The Great Renouncers.

Thomas L. Kelly: award-winning photographer (www.thomaslkellyphotos.com), wife anthropologist and herbalist Carroll Dunham, and their boys Liam 12 and Galen 8. They have called the Himalayas home for over twenty years. This is their 8th summer season in the beloved Bunkhan Valley with Lapis Sky Camp.   Their books include: Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life, The Hidden Himalayas, and Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet- In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon (Abbeville Press. N.Y., N.Y.) They have produced award-winning films on the   Himalayas for BBC, PBS, ITV, Channel 4, National Geographic and CBC.   They love nothing more than drinking deep with kindred spirits   the spacious inner winds of meditation, combined with riding fast horses in vast spaces of wilderness with the wind on their cheeks.   To share this with the intentions of bringing the chod teachings of Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche to the steppes and this wild land, is a dream and blessing.