Dr Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi - Kullu, to friends and colleagues - is an award-winning scientist and conservationist who has studied the snow leopard in the Himalaya and other high mountains of Central Asia for twenty years. He is a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation, a National NGO in India, and the Country Director for the Snow Leopard Trust - an international NGO based in Seattle, with his field research concentrated in India, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. The Ghost of the Mountains is his first book.Website: www.kulbhushansingh.com