Members of Nepal Flora documentation project led by Dr Colin Pendry and Mark Watson are now back in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Pendry and Watson have completed three expeditions to remote areas of Nepal, two to the high mountains of the Everest region in Sagarmatha National Park and one to the Royal Chitwan National Park. 

Back in the UK now they make modest heroes. The Sunday Times writes " they scoff at any notion that they have achieved the status of some real life Indiana Jones. Yet, like the Jones of fiction, a fair chunk of their working lives is spent dodging landmines, carefully circumnavigating man-eating tigers and trekking at lung-bursting altitudes."

You can read the full story Plant hunters in a dangerous land online at Timesonline.