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 ...

After eight months, Javier Carrasco and his partner have covered 12,000km across Europe, China, and Central Asia. They have ...

Journalist and author Amy Yee discussed Tibetan culture and her book “Far From the Rooftop of the World” at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Oct. 26. Her narrative nonfiction and travelogue book ...

For the first time in history, individuals visiting Tibet can experience the area’s mountains and views at high speed, via Tibet’s first ever bullet train. Credit: Xinhua/Chogo. The first high-speed ...

Kunsang, one of the three Tibetan women whose stories are told in the book Across Many Mountains, first heard that saying as a young girl growing up in a remote Himalayan mountain village. She was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...