Mushroom at the Top of the World | Searching for Yarsagumba in Nepal

Mushroom at the Top of the World | Searching for Yarsagumba in Nepal | Documentary film

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Yarsagumba, also known as the 'Himalayan gold' is a rare mushroom that is picked in the remotest corners of the Nepal Himalayas. The prices can reach up to $30.000 per kilogram (2.2 lb). A decade ago Nepal was struck by the yarsagumba trading craze, as the prices of the mushrooms soared in the international markets. Since then the local population has become increasingly dependent on this precious resource. 'The Mushroom at the Top of the World' follows a story of a village in Nepal's Rukum district, where in the aftermath of the People's War, the villagers have turned to mushroom picking in order to restructure their livelihoods. The documentary film addresses the issues of the precarious world of rural Nepal and portrays the people and their resilience in daily struggles to make a living in the relentless mountainous landscape.
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@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

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@ChildFirst 3 жыл бұрын

How old is this documentary video shooting ?

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

@@ChildFirst 3-4 years

@deviram6454 3 жыл бұрын

कुन ठाउँ को हो जिल्ला को नाम पनि राखेको भए हुने नि कस्तो राम्रो छ

@kezzychichi7287 3 жыл бұрын

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@SongpunMagar 14 күн бұрын

@@deviram6454Maikot Rukum (East)

@khikhanoseb1204 3 жыл бұрын

Really Nepali people are very hardworking people ...n I’m very proud that my mum is Nepali

@altanphedap6361 3 жыл бұрын

but we are corrupted

@sagaraaubreymae3249 3 жыл бұрын

that touched my heart with what you said💖

@rodelurena1470 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely hardworking. I worked with nepali here in the mid east and never complain with what they are doing

@rhondaclark716 3 жыл бұрын

Every race works hard. And everything I worked for was stolen. Because I’m whites. We’re being abused every day of our lives and in genesis for thousands of years and counting. 😭. They took everything I worked for our entire life. And my neighbor too. 😭

@khikhanoseb1204 3 жыл бұрын

@@rhondaclark716 It’s a cruel world Clark..Just Believe in God and everything will be Alright...Stay Bless🙏🙏🙏

@shedshedneyramos993 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing Nepal im so lucky i been this place ahhh beauty over all. Nepal and the people and so is the culture, custom, and tradition is ❤

@alifrobinson1810 3 жыл бұрын

They are great fighters!!! Stay safe and strong everyone here.Amazing video.Much love 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾💓💓

@kenyakalex 3 жыл бұрын

@9:47, her laughter is contagious

@whispermcgaughy7251 3 жыл бұрын

This was a very well done doc..I appreciate the insight into the lives and struggles of those so far away,it reminds me that we're really not all that different..The guy singing at the end,gave me life..What a beautiful voice he has and he sang with such conviction..😊 Thanks for sharing..I just subscribed.. 😉

@mariavictor4324 3 жыл бұрын

I just love how it’s universal to feel a bit embarrassed and laugh when your umbrella turns inside out .😄💙😆 be strong and kind.. people everywhere.

@jascintarebello3234 3 жыл бұрын

Such a carefree laugh. One goes back to teenage years laughing like this.

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Love from Nepal 💙

@kezzychichi7287 3 жыл бұрын

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@yasminjaved4463 3 жыл бұрын

Vary good documentary never seen before regards from England

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Razgabz 3 жыл бұрын

Whatta beautiful scenery ...a peaceful place far from stress..Great job to the one who took this video and documented this place..God Bless

@skmiraduzzaman685 2 жыл бұрын

exactly

@santzlimbu4141 2 жыл бұрын

Do you like to visit Nepal??

@Razgabz 2 жыл бұрын

@@santzlimbu4141 ..Maybe someday! God Willing..

@alvinlavin8501 3 жыл бұрын

It's obviously most expensive because it in the top of the world and it hard to find no ordinary people can do that amazing and wow 😳

@shakarlimbu986 3 жыл бұрын

Amaizing Nepal 🇳🇵❤️ and hard working nepali people's

@seasonlove5099 2 жыл бұрын

☺️☺️☺️ proud to be nepali staying on the top of the world 🗺 with beautiful mountains , love that flutes and beautiful folks song ! it gives the nepali vibes and revives when you are out of your place 🙏currently watching from hongkong , thank you for making such beautiful documentaries, dhanyabad 🫶🫶🙏

@pujarai8202 3 жыл бұрын

I see a lot of foreigners here and their beautiful appreciation 😊 🤗 It was an amazing documentary 🌺😊 Thank you so much for this eye pleasing video😍🤗😍

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@donynasem9542 3 жыл бұрын

I have Nepali friends.They are good people,good heart and very helpful.Hope can meet them again.

@electricslider1091 3 жыл бұрын

My thought the people picking this fungus is getting used 6.00 for a whole piece when the stuff is sold for really high amounts they break there backs hurt there knees looking for it for these people and sold for 80,000 a gram and they get a miserable 6.00 for a whole piece cant be broken it's just sad to see someone work hard for nothing

@ghem0477 3 жыл бұрын

exactly that's what i'm thinking ..

@sfjava6239 2 жыл бұрын

You meant $80,000 for 1kg not a gram.

@Manavikageshjali2014 2 жыл бұрын

@@sfjava6239 ,may be INR in Indian rupees

@burtibangvlog4877 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best video......you guys deserve a lots.......support them guys....loved it brothers.....

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support!

@nateone6632 3 жыл бұрын

that mans singing hit me so deep even if It didnt have subtitles tribal singing is soul piercing

@dipeshrajshrestha1207 3 жыл бұрын

Mountain scene is so beautiful 😍🇳🇵

@ahmadkamal8447 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful culture! The must visit country.

@Kehidupan_orang_desa1 3 жыл бұрын

Love from infonesia🙏

@KULDEEPSINGH-fu1rg 3 жыл бұрын

zhanda,burza I played a lot while my childhood memories....💕💕🤗

@xueryna427 3 жыл бұрын

Proud of women worker. Best of nepal

@ghumakadsanjujk0232 3 жыл бұрын

Blessings from Jammu Kashmir India brother🙏

@magar11k 3 жыл бұрын

from dang 🇳🇵🇳🇵❤❤

@electricslider1091 3 жыл бұрын

The rare caterpillar fungus - also known as yarsagumba in the Himalayas - has been described as the world's most expensive parasite, selling for up to 400,000 Yuan ($83,800) per kilogram, according to Chinese state media. That's around $80 a gram, more than the current stock price of $59.40 for a gram of gold

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information!

@rownakmushtari5632 3 жыл бұрын

What will they do with this fungus?

@electricslider1091 3 жыл бұрын

@@rownakmushtari5632 Seems the people who want it gets rich off it while these ppl break there backs and knees trying to find it

@W900Kamikaze 2 жыл бұрын

@@electricslider1091 Yup, you got it right $80.00 a gram X 1000 = $80,000 per kilo in US dollars and still these poor peoples mandatory have to paid the Protection Unit peoples to harvest this wild mushroom.

@santoshjung8443 2 жыл бұрын

4000000 Bruh

@senggarangbangi6948 3 жыл бұрын

It is known as cordyceps with many health benefits. Thank you to those who work very hard that benefits many from far-far land.

@silviakucler1859 2 жыл бұрын

Grazie agli organizzatori di questo documentario. Molto interessante e molto doloroso. Dunque, il fungo Yarsagumba in Nepal, oro autentico per gli abitanti di queste contrade, é simile al corno del rinoceronte e ad altri animali ritenuti taumaturgici da popolazioni in genere asiatiche. Io mi trovo ad un bivio: come europea condannare queste raccolte di animali; come anima del mondo, comprendere l'idea del mondo di queste popolazioni che mi appaiono le più umanamente autentiche.

@Nepalicottage 3 жыл бұрын

आह कति आनन्द लाग्यो यो भिडियो हेरिरहदा

@maplephichaironnarongsongk5485 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck to this Chanel , beautiful production ❤️❤️❤️

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@TheKhimdungvlogs2912 3 жыл бұрын

You guys are amazing , heart touching documentry.love you so much from south korea.

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@tenzinnorbu134 3 жыл бұрын

Yarrsagungbhu is Tibetan word . Meaning yartsa = in summer grass , gungbhu = in winter insect. So this thing becomes grass in summer and insects in winter

@swallowlv3760 3 жыл бұрын

解释正确

@santoshjung8443 2 жыл бұрын

@@swallowlv3760 do u need yarsagumba

@haleangel3171 3 жыл бұрын

Life is hard for some people somewhere but l feel bad for those animals too.

@yasminjaved4463 3 жыл бұрын

Vary difficult job but. People of Nepal are brave I enjoyed this video vary much it’s a vary different world for me thanks for this video regards from England

@electricslider1091 3 жыл бұрын

Did you see how much its sold for these poor people are getting took to pick something so small a little bitty 6.00 for one cant be broken they could be paid more google it

@pheapchap2098 3 жыл бұрын

Napal women's are strong as man's. Every one stay safe and find lots of fungus mushrooms.

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

The women are obviously even stronger :)

@My.Afrique 2 жыл бұрын

Our love for documentaries is unmatched 💯💯

@Gottamm007 2 жыл бұрын

37:50 to 40:35 is pure depiction of reality of life there as sung by that gentleman

@Jannataru19 3 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing Nepal. Im really wanna go there. Sweet greeting from Indonesia

@sabrinawanderer7560 3 жыл бұрын

Love your Nepali music background😍

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@padmi_shanti3002 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this documentary🙏 God Bless You All🙏🌿

@saburai8854 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it ❤

@susmajamkatel7420 3 жыл бұрын

Im proud of being NEPALI

@michaelpage7691 2 жыл бұрын

Love these people. I agree in diversifying the way they get their income but if the numbers of this product is decreasing then the sale price has to go up. If most of the product is going to China then double the price. It’s economics. The rarer the item, the more that has to be paid. In Australia during the gold rush,it was the people who sold goods to the miners that became the richest people. Some of these people could look for the fungus whilst others in the family could be suppliers of goods to others. That’s diversifying. 👍🏻😁🇦🇺

@rajkumarbalami6203 3 жыл бұрын

such a beautiful documentary... keep growing

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@CAPRIkreatif 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing, Fantastyc, Luar biasa.... Subhanallah...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@analybayonamartirizar6460 3 жыл бұрын

Watching from the 🇵🇭 keep safe everyone 😘😘

@rosevlog6483 3 жыл бұрын

Legend documentaries. Thank you for sharing. Full package support. See u too ❤️

@marvinfok65 3 жыл бұрын

Ok, I was wondering what is yarsagumba, it common name is cordyceps sinensis!

@bombasticborneo 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, so this is where and how cordyceps are harvested 😇. TQ 🙏🏿🙏🏿

@michelleserado5018 3 жыл бұрын

Here in hongkong it was sooo expensive people believe that its good for health especially for gaving birth..my salary as a helper is 5,000 $ but that herbs is selling 13,000 to 20,000$..im so amaze coz very expensive😄

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

That is very expensive

@noradsouza3673 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Well done and informative.

@reinaslalatanata2034 3 жыл бұрын

great fighter,, she's carry her child ...omG.. 😥

@OMPRAKASH-ok8se 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting story ❤❤!!

@supriyahazong8687 3 жыл бұрын

This mushroom also found in himachal Pradesh which i based in india.... and its really a tough work to find this small nature gift... 👍🙂

@nimishangpun6131 3 жыл бұрын

U deserve more like & subs vro Aati babal 👍🇳🇵💕

@jimy_rizu 3 жыл бұрын

Yartse khumbu 👍🏼👍🏼wow.. I need to go search for my own.

@sahilgurayaphotography9109 3 жыл бұрын

Good Job brother! Loved it! Greetings from top of the world :D

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother. Greetings back!

@gavindougherty5136 2 жыл бұрын

Great Info...

@florenceknight420 2 жыл бұрын

This ppl is living simple,contented ND happy life💖

@prabinashrestha8461 3 жыл бұрын

Heaven ❤️

@sarmisthabakshi377 2 жыл бұрын

👌❤ amazing film

@wokilrajbaaniya2634 3 жыл бұрын

God gift my country.love you.

@Beatrice.Ndungu 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative documentary. From Nairobi Kenya

@matevzkokol 3 жыл бұрын

Great picture and a very interesting story! Love it. :)

@somtamang1635 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful video

@clarizamalones3348 3 жыл бұрын

It's like a paradise in there

@cheechinwong5585 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing documentary. Please put in place controls for business continuity

@aakritithapa2032 2 жыл бұрын

i found even old people are using some english word while talking .although there is no better facilties in this region ..mountain people are so hardworking in their work🙏🙏

@santoshjung8443 2 жыл бұрын

Much much lop😘

@silviakucler1859 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the organizers of this documentary. Very interesting and very painful. Therefore, the Yarsagumba mushroom in Nepal, authentic gold for the inhabitants of these districts, is similar to the horn of the rhinoceros and other animals considered thaumaturgical by populations generally Asian. I find myself at a crossroads: as a European to condemn these collections of animals; as the soul of the world, to understand the idea of the world of these peoples who seem to me the most humanly authentic.

@BHIMGHALE74024416 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice

@mohamadghazaliawangngah2294 3 жыл бұрын

So amazing..the baby moth turn into mushroom..maybe no elsewhere we can found this mushroom accept in Naples.

@shamsshrestha7318 2 жыл бұрын

when i reach katmandu ,nepal i feel over whelm nice people and really kind i like how they treat visitors 🙏😇im planning to comeback soon

@mitraramnarine3809 2 жыл бұрын

Wow nice i from trinidad and i have friends from nepal how nice 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@robertellis1281 3 жыл бұрын

Morels here in America about $30 lbs out of season, the season is only a few months a year in the wild---- Very Beautiful Scenery Nepal and Way of life , might seem rough to some people , but much better than living in City and keeping up with the jones

@prateekthapa13 3 жыл бұрын

Love and respect to them

@truthspeaker5628 3 жыл бұрын

What a Documentary! Loved this. Thank you for uploading.

@ezraezra504 3 жыл бұрын

Mountain everywhere. It must be really hard to climb.

@HimalayanArchives 3 жыл бұрын

The terrain is very challenging!

@thengelsMuaythaifitness 2 жыл бұрын

I have seen this caterpillar fungus here in hongkong and now i understand why it's so expensive, people shouldn't complain about the price when they are buying because as we can see the very hard work of them just to get a single of caterpillar fungus 😥 may the god bless them everyday 🙏.

@habibatoktogazieva4213 3 жыл бұрын

Оо Боже дай им здоровья терпения и больше ярсагумбу

@janejanis9199 2 жыл бұрын

Protection unit? Everyone of them crawling on hands and knees to gather as many as they possibly can. "protection unit makes a lot of money"- stated in the opening segment.

@sonyequator6852 2 жыл бұрын

How hard they are to earn money for living. Marvelous!! What the bad thing was There a Gambling. All they hard income will finish in a while. No people rich from gambling, because they win from the defeat their mate...too. The winner is the owner of the place. Sad things....

@francissherpa1696 6 ай бұрын

It's a hard life, but there are many happy moments.

@Boleh888 3 жыл бұрын

The people who just depends on nature to survive, will not enough to survive. They need the available technology and education to level up their socioeconomic status.

@rajibraya1340 3 жыл бұрын

A simple mind doesn't ask much out of life. Little is more, in a way pain can be pleasure.

@Boleh888 3 жыл бұрын

@@rajibraya1340 It's true, on the other hand... people must moving forward, not just increase their population.

@sanjogthapamagar7483 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you want to ruin their life our technology kill us they had make us different being then a human bro

@Boleh888 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanjogthapamagar7483 Without technology, people cannot survive even from flood disaster like what happened in Nepal right now (mid June 2021). Without technology all the buried of covid-19 corpse problem at the Ganges River bank, India cannot be solved forever.

@emadabz6886 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing Nepal

@manolescumariana9581 3 жыл бұрын

Brave people!

@user-tu5us2bw9i 3 жыл бұрын

Красота, с субтитрами то! Класс!!! 😳😄👍

@aruntamang 2 жыл бұрын

Wise words by the gentleman at 24:37.

@AmbleLog 3 жыл бұрын

At any time, anywhere, and anyway. let's explore, let's click, and let's share.

@princesslimbu34 3 жыл бұрын

Mo v nepali ho lekin india dekhin ho but i luv nepal ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘

@kooxaldoxt5162 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Aafno Nepali pan Lai kahile pani nabirsanu. 🙏🥰

@princesslimbu34 3 жыл бұрын

@@kooxaldoxt5162 Sure 👍

@buddhigurung5297 2 жыл бұрын

Our country NEPAL is one of the most beautiful countries in the world

@globalkashmir2874 2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@jimmysanders2089 3 жыл бұрын

The turned inside out umbrella lady is so funny 😄

@UZanka Жыл бұрын

Спасибо что создали русские субтитры, можно смотреть и понимать, что вобще происходит .

@robertlouisebaker-hyde1267 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve got so many Nepalese friends and I got to learn about this wonder ‘drug’ from them. It says, it’s better than viagra. Very interesting. Very rare and very expensive they say. It’s a worm and turns into a herb or plant. Amazing ain’t it.

@bishnuadhikari9631 3 жыл бұрын

Kati hahro chha jeewan.

@dr.bharatrajsubba5166 3 жыл бұрын

Has the local government any conservation schemes for the yarsagba?

@dorathilak9009 3 жыл бұрын

I have nepily friends they very peaceful helpful I like nepal

@senzone1 2 жыл бұрын

If the yarsagumba still standing on place, Is the moth growing out of the cordyceps?

@johanrynjah8241 2 жыл бұрын

Yarsagumba is a unique caterpillar-fungus fusion that occurs when parasitic mushroom spores (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) infect and mummify a ghost moth larva living in the soil. A spindly fungus later sprouts from the dead caterpillar host’s head. Two to six centimeters long, the fungus shoots above the soil, acting as a tiny, finger-shaped flag for harvesters to find. This peculiar hybrid is the world’s most expensive biological resource.

@sudarshanshrestha4260 3 жыл бұрын

Love Nepal

@danielblue4460 2 жыл бұрын

They can farm the worms and release them in the area to increase yield. Fungi is all over the land already, again, the land is heavily infected with spores, the problem is lack of worms.