Hero of Kumaon Grand National Compara Dun

Compara Dun

Middle-aged professional photographer Helen Shaw and her husband Bob set off with those questions in mind and were blown away by the experience

He's up against sun cancer

the patience and ultimately the reward of an extraordinary image

seen them through hardships

Hero of Kumaon Grand National Compara DunJim Corbett became the hero of thousands of impoverished local families in the remote Indian region of Kumaon when, throughout the 1920s and 30s, he answered their pleas to rid them of the man eating tigers and leopards which were ravaging their populations. Man eaters roamed a region of hundreds of square miles over several years, killing the defenceless villagers at will: for example the Champawat man eater had killed over 434 people in six years,