Aerial view of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, the deepest canyon in the world, in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, March 21, 2017.

China's proposal to construct a colossal dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet has sparked alarm across South Asia due to ...

While not as vast as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, the deepest canyon in the world, a similarly jaw-dropping and ...

This book, with more than 50,000 words of text and 100-odd illustrations, tries to present to its readers a complete picture of the mysterious Yarlung Tsangpo Great Canyon. (China.org.cn October ...

Canyons and gorges are some of the most recognizable natural formations in the world, but how do you tell them apart? The differences are small!

Like the river that runs through it, the canyon goes under many names — The Great Canyon of Yarlung, the Namcha Barwa Gorge, the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, the Tsangpo Gorge, etc.

A team of German, Chinese, and American geoscientists have namely discovered a canyon, filled with more than 500 m of sediments beneath the bed of the present-day Yarlung Tsangpo River upstream ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient, deep canyon buried along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in south Tibet, north of the eastern end of the Himalayas. The geologists say that the ancient canyon ...

A five-star hotel will be built at the entrance of Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon - regarded by some as the longest and deepest in the world, certainly one of the least accessible, and yet probably the ...

Paradise found The Tsangpo river cuts into the Himalayas to form the world's deepest chasm. At its heart, according to Buddhist texts, lies the fabled land of Shangri-La. Ian Baker was the first ...

A Harrowing Kayak Expedition in Tibet In February 2002, journalist Peter Heller accompanied seven extreme kayakers on an attempt to paddle down the Tsangpo river gorge in Tibet. He talks with NPR ...

Aerial view of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, the deepest canyon in the world, in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, March 21, 2017. [Photo/IC] Yarlung Gorge in southern Tibet, also ...