ABOUT DREAMS WITHOUT MOUNTAINS

The glorified romantic image of happy Nepalese people in small mountain villages, tending yaks and cattle and reaping rice with a hook, is today further from reality than ever before. They are rather dreaming of a future in the city, escaping the arduous rural life in their mountain village. Michael Bader travelled around the Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain on Earth, and portrayed numerous people from the most diverse tribes. On his photographs, these people succeed in breaking away from their environment for an instant, to make one step out of their everyday lives.