NEPAL TRIBES 

Nepal is an incredibly diverse and ethnically complex country and home to multiple religions, race, tribes, cultures, numerous indigenous and linguistic communities. Altogether 126 ethnic groups are reported to live there and 13 groups of Tibetan people migrated to Nepal after Dalai Lama exile.
But only 59 of these ethnic groups are officially listed as indigenous peoples by the National Foundation. The total population of indigenous nationalities is more than 9 million, comprising almost 50 per cent of the total population. And although Sherpa tribe is internationaly acknowledged and became a separate term used synonymosly with porters, all other tribes and other minorities are not officially recognized and it is almoust impossible to find any information about them. Here's only few of them - Magar, Tharu, Tamang, Newar, Rai, Gurung, Limbu, Thakali, Bote, Raute, Hayu, Jirel, Abor, Tani, Miri, Singpho, Momba, Khowa, Khampti, Kusunda, Kam, Muslim, Yadav, Sarki, Pode, Damai, Badi, Lohar, Chamar, Sunar and Halkhar. I'm not going to list all 139 tribes and cultures, but will tell some insights on those, that I found. 

View on Langtang valley near Tibetan border where the most massive and destructive landslide in Nepal triggered by the earthquake in 2015, buried several villages and killed at least 350 people.Thousands of houses and centuries-old buildings were destroyed across the country due to this earthquake with 8,632 dead and 19,000 injured.

It is almost impossible to travell to their villages by yourself, as mainly all of these tribes live in Himalayas above 3500 meters with high snow-capped peaks and deadly slopes dividing them.
But really tragic circumstances in 2015 gave me an opportunity to join the team of WWF and Intrepid Foundation in tracking to those remote parts.
On 25 of April a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal and an entire sections of mountainside came off, bringing with it giant boulders, much of the glacier, and the entire frozen lake.
An estimated 40 million tons of rock and ice was funnelled down the couloir, straight onto the villages in the area of Langtang. It had been so devastated that there was not a single shred of evidence that there had ever been a village there. So while travelling to Langtang valley and help to install a clean water stations I also made a detour to Tibetan boarder in search of indigenous tribes.

While travelling through Himalayas mountains with WWF and Intrepid Foundation we also were discussing the development of first school for children with special needs in Kathmandu. Due to my architectural background I participated and helped in site development as well as general school layouts.