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Mustang stayed aloof from the rest of the world until 1990es sustaining the medieval Tibet in the citadel of the Himalayas. The first outsider to go and research about the Mustang kingdom was Michel Peissel who went there in 1960es and wrote the book ‘Mustang the lost Tibetan Kingdom’. The walled city of Lo Manthag Michel Peissel had to start walking right from Pokahra and he encountered the Tibetan ‘Khampa’ warriors with machine guns, the resistance against Chinese occupation of Tibet. The walled city and the monasteries of Mustang were great sources of the history and culture of Mustang, trans-Himalayan trade and Tibetan Buddhism. Until 1960es there were hundreds of monks practicing and the libraries had great books on various subjects. With more tourists willing to go visit the place, the Government of Nepal opened the area for trekking only in 1992. In the earlier days, trekking groups had to take a government liaison officer along with them and get the expensive restricted ar...