Building the Road to Kathmandu: Notes on the History of Tourism in Nepal

This paper considers the rise of mass tourism in Nepal in the 1960s in light of the historical processes that created images of the Himalayas in the Western imagination. By the 19th century critics of modernity had begun to look to \u27The East\u27 in search of the spiritual authenticity they believed lost in the increasingly \u27disenchanted\u27 West. From the article introduction, p. 1