News — Cashmere

I've still got the cashmere shawl I bought on my first visit to Kathmandu in 1980 - it's still going strong! For the last 15 years I've spent a month most summers trekking in the Himalaya mountains of north India, Nepal and Tibet. Among the mountain passes, steep hillsides and icy streams you see very few other people, maybe the occasional trekker or a couple of monks crossing from one valley to another. Scattered in the upland valleys you come across summer pastures and rough stone shelters used by shepherds who'll gather their sheep and goats for the night in...