Friday, March 29, 2024

Disaster or Development? China to tunnel beneath the Himalayas

Picture credit: QUARTZ  The mighty Mount Everest, or Sagarmatha (as the Nepalese call it), at an elevation of 8,850 meters is indisputably one of the hardest mountains to...

The Himalayan symphony

PC : www.ajktours.com Imagine the endless lush green fields stretching as far as your eyes can reach, the sharp pine trees guarding the gigantic mountains standing behind, the...

In a Distant Country Sheltered By Mountains.

Tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people run from one point to another in search of tranquility in their lives. So here I am, looking for some kind of escape from...

2 wonderful new books take armchair travelers to the Himalayas

“Till the summer of 1904 if one had been asked what was the most mysterious spot on the earth’s surface the reply would have been Lhasa.” So...

So Mo- The Tibetan boy at Namtso Lake

His name is SoMo. I met him while on a trek to Namtso Lake in Tibet.  I had wanted to travel to Tibet for years and when...

A Hundred Miles Apart

'A Hundred Miles Apart' is a series of photos I clicked in Tibet 2013. This was my first trip without my father, the person who brought me...

Free “Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit” coming October 22 from Lion’s Roar and Tibet...

              divyaRichard Gere, Karenna Gore, Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, and Deepak Chopra headline this month’s Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit, a historic celebration of one of the great...

After the settlement.

Pongsakorn Neton is a photography student at LaGuardia Community College. He has involved with Himalayan Elders...