In addition to the enjoyment of hunting and the pleasure of new mushroom discoveries, the cryptic association of fungi with the decaying dead lends to the search a certain mystique that inspires the avid fungiphile.

Figures on the number of women choosing to freebirth are not collated, but researchers and midwives believe it's on the rise.

In the side of a storage structure, I note a surely-not-officially sanctioned graffiti slogan, Art is Long, Life is Short.

A forty-minute drive through the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley took the team from the airport to the city of Lhasa.