Born in 1941 in the north of England, between the Pennine hills and the Irish Sea, he studied architecture and town planning at Liverpool University. He then worked on historic buildings in architectural practice. After traveling the east for half a year, exploring Turkey, Syria, Syria, Iran, and Pakistan, he arrived in Nepal through India and set on a journey to Mustang in 1985. He traveled around South Asia for a couple of years but wanted to return to the Himalayas with a project in mind.

“The answer came by chance in London, when I saw an exhibition of measured drawings of village houses in Mugu, northwest Nepal, by Ada Wilson, who was teaching at the Architectural Association. That was it.”

In 1996, he started his work in Mustang with Niels Gutschow’s architecture team in an interdisciplinary research project financed by the German Research Council (DFG).

For the last thirty years, he has traveled and worked in India, Pakistan, China, and Nepal, documenting and restoring the buildings of Tibet and the Himalayas. He has written and lectured on his survey and building work in the Himalayas and produced and toured three exhibitions. He is the author of “The LAMO Centre: Restoration and adaptive reuse in Leh Old Town,” and co-author of a monograph on a Tibetan temple in Mustang, Nepal. His other book “Mustang Building: Tibetan Temples and Vernacular Architecture in Nepal Himalaya,” which he describes as “a record of a love affair with a Tibetan region,” was published in 2019.

He currently lives in a stone cottage in Snowdonia in the “mountains” of Wales.

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