The eight holy mountains in the story are sacred mountains in Tibet with deep religious and cultural significance. They are located in Tibetan autonomous prefectures in Tibet, Qinghai and Sichuan ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local ...

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No one has ever climbed this mountain. At least - there are no records of a single person ever making it to the top. Yet it's a peak known across vast swathes of the earth's population - and it ...

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is home to 30% of the nation's total lake area. Hundreds of rivers run through the magnificent landscape of the plateau. The region is also known for its snow ...

BEIJING >> American mountaineer Anna Gutu and a Nepalese guide Mingmar Sherpa were confirmed Sunday dead after avalanches struck the slopes of a Tibetan mountain, while two others remained missing, ...

Colin Thubron’s new travel memoir follows the writer on a journey of self-discovery, on an expedition uncharacteristically personal and introspective for a travel writer. After the death of his mother ...

A Massachusetts native died after an avalanche struck a Tibet mountain over the weekend. Gina Marie Rzucidlo was declared deceased by the Chinese Authorities on Monday afternoon, according to her ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — American mountaineer Anna Gutu and a Nepalese guide Mingmar Sherpa were confirmed Sunday dead after avalanches struck the slopes of a Tibetan mountain, while two others remained missing ...

Located in the southwest region of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the mountain is a well-known holy mountain, which regarded as the world center by Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Bon (the primitive ...