Pilgrims -- Origins -- The First Explorers -- Lost Kingdoms -- The Architects of Xanadu -- The Rise of Gorkha -- The High Road to Tibet -- Trade Wars -- The Hard Road to Sagauli -- Mapping the ...

The other-wordly beauty of Rara lake in western Nepal. Photo: Bharat Bandhu Thapa Both a soaring celebration and a sacramental offering to the highest mountain range in the world, everything you ever ...

Recently, when the Union Home Ministry issued an order to open up Kanchenjunga “to foreigners desirous of mountaineering and trekking”, the Sikkimese protested vociferously, so much so that the Centre ...

A history of the Himalaya, its peoples, cultures and mountains. "A magisterial account of the complex human history of the greatest mountains on Earth," said the Times.

But the work is hard to pin down. It is neither history nor biography, though it incorporates elements of both. It begins with the British expedition to Tibet that culminated in 1904, followed by two ...