- A basket full of King boletes (Boletus edulis sensu lato)
- A big Amanita hemibapha, the Himalayan Caesar, a choice edible with two eggs that are twice as big as a regular egg
- A improvised building in the matsutake camp.
Matsutake is known by Tibetans as Beshing Shamo, the oak mushroom, since it grows with oaks. - A mobile matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake) dealer who meets his clients along the hiighway.
- A Pheasant (Phasanius colchicus) crossing the road.
- A tiny flowered, but great colored Sedum found in 4500m.
- Allium nanodes encountered on a wind swept pass in 4500m
- Be Sha sales woman. Be sha is the Tibetan name for pine mushrooms, but means oak mushroom.
In Tibet they are associated with evergreen oaks. - Cyananthus langiflorus, in the Bellflower / Campanulaceae family.
- Eggs of Amanita hemibapha, the Himalayan Caesar, a choice edible
- Gentiana atunsiensis, one of my favorite Gentians. Loves to grow above 4200m!
- Goats and prayer flags
- Great Hot springs near Shangri La
- I love the structure of Polyporus arcularius, a wood digesting Polypore.
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- Matsutake collector with their heavy harvest waiting until his buddy comes by motorcycle to fetch him.
- Mountain scenery on the Deqen / Garze Prefectures border, Chinese know as Xiao Shu Shan
- Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Our 4 drivers and two guides, all Khampas,
Khampas are people from the Kham region in Eastern Tibet, these days divided and ruled under Tibet AR's Qamdo/Chamdo Prefecture, Sichuan's Ganzi/Kandze & Ngawa/Aba TAP, Yunnan's Deqing/Dechen TAP and parts of Qinghai's Yushu/Jyekundo TAP = Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. - Phallus regulosus seen while visiting the Panda breeding station in Chengdu on the last day