High in the mist-shrouded Himalayas, a winding mountain road opens to a clearing in the pine forested valley, revealing rows ...

Humans on the Tibetan Plateau have evolved to thrive in high-altitude, low-oxygen environments. Over 10,000 years, their ...

Yangzom Brauen's new family memoir Across Many Mountains tells the harrowing yet ultimately inspirational story of her grandmother and mother's life in Tibet and their subsequent escape and exile ...

By Yan Zhuang Last fall, Nima Rinji Sherpa, then 17, was in Tibet preparing to ascend Mount Shishapangma, the world’s 14th highest mountain. He knew reaching its 26,335-foot, or 8,027-meter ...

"I quit university and my degree to pursue a career in mountaineering and sacrificed friendships, regular teenage life and ...

Excerpted from the book To a Mountain in Tibet (Harper, 2011). Reprinted by permission. The sun is rising to its zenith. Silver-grey boulders lie tumbled along the track among mattresses of thorns and ...

And roads to the mountains and other remote attractions ... the few inches of rain that Tibet sees is considered mild. If you want to avoid the heavy precipitation, visit in June.

Stepped terraces cut into the landscape mark the Quzika 1865 Winery Complex, which Chinese studio PL-T Architecture has ...

Photo from S-C Shi via Ma, Shi, Shen, Chang and Jiang (2024) Way up in the mountains of Tibet, a “slender” creature scaled the wall of a darkened building. Its “large” mosaic-like eyes ...

The region also features monasteries, ancient ruins and plenty more mountains, lakes and forests. Nagqu is the largest region within Tibet, situated north of Lhasa. Nagqu, like Ngari, is pretty ...