Bhavita has been painstakingly building a grassroots project from Kathmandu to study & support the lives of horse herders and yak nomads, particularly the fast disappearing ponies across Dolpo, and the larger Himalaya and regions like Dhorpatan, Mustang, Manang, Gorkha, Everest, Sikkim etc.     

Through her project, Cowboys of the Lost Horizon, Bhavita aims to create a long-term multimedia project that will document the last generation of horse traders and study closely the few horsemen that have chosen to stay back in their homelands. She also hopes to bring attention to the threatened horses across the highest passes of the Himalaya, and to bring support for the horse communities of Dolpo and the larger Himal. Roads are now arriving in remote Himalayan regions like Dolpo, raising critical  concerns for the survival of the horses in once inaccessible regions of Nepal.  

Bhavita is a storyteller, a horse conservationist, an adventurer & an ecofeminist with over a decade long experience around the pastoral communities of the trans-Himalayan region in India, Bhutan and Nepal. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, Explorer’s Club, the New Yorker etc.   

She recently partnered with the National Geographic Society on a 5000-kilometer foot traverse across northern India, literally walking back for over a year toward the world’s most isolated nomadic communities in the Himalaya.