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The Ghost of the Mountain

Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard

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Snow leopards have a special grip on the human imagination, a symbol of the mysteries that still exist on our planet. These elusive predators live solitary lives in the highest reaches of the Himalaya, moving along rock faces like smoke. They are also the flagship species of Himalayan conservation, key to preserving this austere, delicate ecosystem.

Early Praise

“Suryawanshi is one of the few people who truly understands these ghostly cats. . . . An affecting book about an animal that was ‘shaped to perfection by evolution’ but that now needs human help to survive.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Thrilling and intrepid. A beautiful tale of dramatic, wild landscapes and the entangled lives of snow leopards, their prey, and the humans who share their terrain.” —Andrea Wulf, bestselling author of The Invention of Nature

“Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi has spent his adult life studying, following, and trying to protect snow leopards. The Ghost of the Mountains takes readers into the field, high in the Himalayas. The story it tells is by turns beautiful, terrible, and encouraging.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction

“The narrative echoes with delight and wonder; Kullu’s pursuit of knowledge about snow leopards blends with his recounting of pursuing glimpses of these wondrous creatures. You should allow yourself to be swept along.” —Alexandra Horowitz, bestselling author of Inside of a Dog

“Enchanting. The author is a most amiable guide on the mountainside, and this deeply informed book gave me hope for the future of conservation.” — Sara Wheeler, bestselling author of Terra Incognita

“Marvellous. A thrilling story of adventure amongst high mountains, deep mysteries, elusive animals and vertiginous facts.” — Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast and The Edges of the World

Kullu is the Director of the India Program of the Snow Leopard Trust, and a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation  

Kullu is a CIFAR fellow (2023-28), A Fellow of the British Ecological Society (2025 onwards) and a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin (2022), a recipient of the National Geographic Young Explorer (2011) and collaboration grants (2015), Conservation Leadership Award grant (2020), and British Ecological Society’s Southwood Prize (2013).

  • BBC One: It takes a village to save the snow leopard

    BBC worked with Kullu to film snow leopards for their newest film, Asia. Here is what Kullu had to say about the years of effort that goes into understanding places and species.

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  • Kullu is a CIFAR Fellow (2023-28)

    Kullu is part of CIFAR’s new research program called Future Flourishing where the fellows network will work around the central question of “What does it mean to live (well) without human exceptionalism?”

    CIFAR website

  • Nature India features our work: An ancient pea holds lessons for a warming Himalaya

    Nurtured for millennia in the Trans-Himalaya, the hardy black pea outperforms cash crops in resilience and nutrition — and could reshape how science values farmers’ knowledge and forgotten foods.

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  • The New York Review publishes The Last Tiger

    Eduardo Halfon introduced Kullu at his colloquium in Wissenschaftskolleg. It turned into a story that is now in The New York Review.

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  • The Straits Times from Singapore covers our research and conservation efforts

    Our research and conservation efforts to help wolves in the Himalayan region gathering attention in Singapore.

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  • Eduardo Publishes the Last Tiger in Spanish

    The Last Tiger is published in the Mexican Magazine Letras Libres

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  • German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel publishes Eduardo Halfon's story featuring Kullu

    Eduardo Halfon’s story that was orinally published by the New York Book Review has been translated into German and published in one of the country’s leading newspaper

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  • Study reveals benefits of traditional Himalayan crops

    Stanford does a blog post on our collaborative research about traditional crops of the Himalaya

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