Vanessa Martín Quintana

In Mt. Kailash, Tibet

In Mt. Kailash, Tibet

Freelance journalist, editor, and translator born in the Canary Islands, Spain.

She specialized in the management and preservation of a documentary archive on Asia produced over three decades. She also holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting and has studied Journalism, storytelling, and South Asian studies while living in Spain, Germany, Austria, and the United States.

She has interviewed the Dalai Lama in Varanasi and traveled to Tibet, India, Laos, Xinjiang, and the Taklamakan desert. Her deep interest in Hindu and Tibetan cultures, displaced communities, and mountaineering has driven her travels, but nothing has been more impactful than arriving in Kathmandu for the first time in May 2005, during Nepal’s civil war. Since then, her passion for the Himalayas has led her to explore the region on numerous occasions.

She prefers to organize her own journeys and travel mainly to the remote regions of northwest Nepal with the Sherpa, traveling light with only a camera and notebook. She promotes the importance of traveling alone, especially for women.