"DeBuys brings many of the most appealing attributes of memoir and travel and nature writing to bear on humanity’s most significant existential crisis. In 61 brief chapters, which read like travel journal entries, deBuys weaves together geological and evolutionary histories and studies of the planet’s peoples and biodiversity within the context of his participation with the Nomads Clinic, which provides medical care to communities in Nepal’s remote Upper Dolpo region... A pleasing ray of positivity regarding the planet’s present and future.

—Kirkus Reviews

"Bill deBuys is one of the planet's great observers, and this may be his masterwork—a story of an exploration, of Nepal, but also of the present and future of this planet. Caring for that world, and all that's in it, is necessary, painful, and as he makes clear, exquisitely beautiful work."

—Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature

"Written in the spirit of Mathiessen's Snow Leopard, Trail to Kanjiroba is a pilgrimage into the unknown of the inner realms. DeBuys' heartfelt, raw, poetically written personal peregrination is a true service to life on an increasingly disrupted planet.

—Dahr Jamail, author of The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

"The Trail to Kanjiroba is a transformative path on the page by one of America’s most eloquent writers. Bill deBuys has written a walking prayer about beauty, hope, and longing in the service of human dignity and a living planet. Though set in Nepal in the high altitude grace of Dolpo, this is a spiritual pilgrimage contemplating the journey from grief toward love. Hands pressed together, I hold these words close and bow."

—Terry Tempest Williams, Writer-In-Residence, Harvard Divinity School

"Dolpo has been a land of inspiration for many people over many centuries. I am glad to see that it inspired my friend Bill deBuys to share this important message about our Earth and ourselves."

—Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche