Yarsagumba pickers travel to highlands with no guarantee of safe return

Over 200 people have perished on their way to pick yarsa across the country in the last decade, according to locals.

On her way back from Dhanseri Himal highland where she had gone to collect Yarsagumba, Ruwasi Bohara, a local of Bichhada in Surma Rural Municipality-1 in Bajhang, met her neighbour Sinki Bohara at Parthi highland on May 31. Sinki was on her way to Byasimare highland to pick Yarsagumba.