Dhakal Bishwo Karma has been a yarsagumba trader for years. With the help of his family, he sets up a small shop at camp where he also sells a wide variety of goods and commodities. When the harvest is done, he journeys to the closest landing strip, where the kilos of yarsagumbas will be flown to Kathmandu and then to China. At the very core of this chain of production-consumption, a real inequality persists. At camp, traders like him buy one good piece of product for 6 $CA. In Kathmandu, it will be sold for about CA$20 000 per kilo, and in China, the retailers will sell it for about CA$2 000 per ounce (above CA$70 000 per kilo).