Shyama Pal

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About Shyama Pal

I have a PhD in Applied Biology. But I now chase snow leopards. My supervisor hasn’t recovered. My clients call it the best trip of their lives. The snow leopards remain unavailable for comment.I left cancer research to witness what is vanishing. My mother has many regrets. I have zero. 50+ expeditions. 7 continents. Every client has come back, referred someone, or both.Maybe you’re next — if somewhere between the third scroll and the fourth coffee, you already feel it… the kind of tired that builds quietly over years of back-to-back meetings, WhatsApp groups you can’t leave, and weekends that feel like more work. A retreat that serves a cucumber as healing.Something is missing. It’s not burnout. It’s older than that.Fully alive. But perfectly still. That feeling exists. I know exactly where. And I can take you there.I am a naturalist, photographer, and wilderness guide whose life is built around one purpose: seek out rare, disappearing species in wild places — on their terms, with patience — and I lead others there too, before they are gone.I did not choose this work because it was needed, though it is. I chose it because I cannot imagine bearing witness to this world — and then looking away. So I didn’t.And I became one of India’s only women independently leading luxury wildlife expeditions across 7 continents.Jaguars in Pantanal. Amur tigers in Russia’s far east. Gorillas in Uganda. The Great Migration in Kenya. Polar bears in Churchill. Penguins in Antarctica. Shark cage diving in Australia. Red pandas in Singalila. Pallas’s cat kittens in Ladakh — the grumpiest faces in the animal kingdom, worth the altitude.If you are the executive who needs to genuinely switch off. Or the parent whose curious child asks questions a resort pool can’t answer. Or the family who want everyone — from the 8 year old to the grandfather — to share the same unforgettable moment. Or the woman who keeps being told the wild isn’t for her. Or the retiree wondering if their knees will keep up. Or simply the person who already has a list.You’re in the right place. I already know we’ll get along. I will fulfil your calling.When you’re ready — the wild asks only one thing: show up quietly, with curiosity, and leave your expectations at the forest edge.The animals aren’t getting more common. Neither are moments like these. You’ve waited long enough. So have they.See it. Feel it. Protect it.P.S. Ground operator in polar, marine, or remote habitats? Conservation and ethics first — I’d love to find you.