Snow Leopard Matthiessen

The snow leopard in 1973 peter matthiessen and field biologist george schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of nepal to study the himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard.

Snow leopard matthiessen. Peter matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the national book award for both non fiction the snow leopard in two categories in 1979 and 1980 and fiction shadow country in 2008. Matthiessen went along for several reasons for the high altitude flora and fauna the most elusive of which is the snow leopard and for spiritual reasons having to do with a pilgrimage to the ancient shrine on crystal mountain as well as a more personal quest to understand reality and suffering prompted by the recent loss of his wife to cancer. Matthiessen a student of zen buddhism was also on a spiritual quest to find the lama of shey at the ancient shrine on. About the snow leopard.