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 ...
To the Alps of Chinese Tibet: an Account of a Journey of Exploration up to and among the Snow-clad Mountains of the Tibetan Frontier. By Prof. J. W. Gregory C. J. Gregory. Pp. 321+16 plates.
More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with ...
Nepal lies in a seismically active zone where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates converge, giving rise to the Himalayas ...