Tasmania, the island state of Australia, sits about 150 miles south of the mainland and was hit with a “ cold snap ” that ...

Dreaming of glimpsing the Dalai Lama and facing oppression in Tibet, a monk embarked on a dangerous journey through Nepal to ...

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), said: “Our competition goes from strength to strength, with this ...

GUERRILLAS IN THE MIST: One the last photos of the Khampa leader Wangdu taken at the Hotel de l'Annapurna garden in Kathmandu ...

Chinese scientists have recently discovered that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau acts as the only net greenhouse gas (GHG) sink ...

With blankets, snow machines, and limited funding, a small team of scientists is testing a desperate plan to slow the collapse of one of China’s most vulnerable glaciers.

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

The undisputed top tourist attraction in Lhasa remains the Potala Palace, the former winter residence of the Dalai Lamas, spiritual leaders of Tibetan Buddhism, until the current holder of that ...

She could only make the journey for the nearly two months of winter vacation (between the Gregorian New Year and the Tibetan New Year) and the two months of summer vacation. "When I returned ...

Tibetan children are now forced into an exclusive ... time I could go home was during my one-month summer and two-month winter vacation,” said a source who now resides in exile in Dharamsala ...

Tibetan media outlets credited Thondup for networking ... on Sunday where the spiritual leader is currently staying for the winter months. He prayed for Thondup’s “swift rebirth,” in ...