The fungus that sells for more than gold: Inside Nepal's Yarsa Gumba rush

Every spring, thousands of people from Nepal's remotest Himalayan districts abandon their homes and climb above 3,500 metres to search for something barely visible to the untrained eye. They are looking for Yarsa Gumba, a fungus-caterpillar complex no larger than a matchstick, emerging from the frozen ground of alpine meadows where yaks graze.

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