“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

“A brave, unique field-study of the most extraordinary cat on the planet -- the Snow  Leopard -- elusive, Spartan and beautiful” — Desmond Morris, bestselling author of The Naked Ape

“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

“'Ghost of the Mountains' is a thrilling and engrossing adventure, written in passionate prose by one of the world's foremost conservationists of the snow leopard. Khulbhushansingh's deeply grounded praxis in the Himalayan landscape imbues his passages with a unique and strange power. Like the experienced mountaineer that he is, his writing too constantly straddles; across huge challenges of conservation, political complexity and community struggles in the mountains, with the haunting beauty of the snow leopard in its habitat. In that sense, for me, he surpasses Matthiessen.” Yuvan Aves, author of Intertidal