Yutaka Hirako was invited to give a talk on August 4th to the Naropa Institute’s 55 fellows (from across India, Nepal, Bhutan and Nigeria). They were taking part in a one-year residential, post-graduate programme in Ladakh, designed to build entrepreneurial leadership in the Himalayan region. Yutaka took the fellows through the 25 years work of THF and introduced THF conservation practices and there continuity to conserve architecture and cultural heritage in the Himalaya.