This elusive mountain is Gangkhar Puensum, located 300 kilometers east of Everest on the border between Bhutan and China. Standing at 7,570 meters, Gangkhar Puensum ranks as the 40th highest mountain ...

Paro International Airport in Bhutan, situated between 18,000-foot mountain peaks and nearby residential areas, provides such a challenge to pilots that only 50 jet jockeys worldwide have been ...

The Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world, were formed 50 million years ago. The brilliant peaks stretch across five countries: Nepal, India, Bhutan, China, and Pakistan. The range is ...

We step into Gelephu for our daily needs even today as it is less than a kilometre away compared with the nearest Indian town ...

The sun has slid behind the mountains looming over Thimphu ... Singye Wangchuck ascended the throne in 1972, Bhutan suffered from some of the highest poverty, illiteracy, and infant-mortality ...

Expeditions from around the world are entering Tibet to climb 8,000-meter peaks, including Cho Oyu, under strict rules.

At Damchen Lhakhang, a tiny 14th century monastery in Bhutan’s Gangtey valley ... steamed dumplings (momo) and mountains of chillies. Paro in the west lies on the old trading route to Tibet.

Bhutan is a real-life Shangri-La with near ... You have to get over 11 high passes in the Himalayas, the world’s tallest mountains. That means you climb several thousand feet, then descend ...

Sikkim, India’s least populous state, borders Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet (China ... India’s second tallest mountain. There will also be two dining areas, live kitchens, a yoga pavilion and ...

That man was Michael Juergens, a wine-mad partner at Deloitte who five years ago laid the foundations of the Bhutan Wine Company (BWC) with his partner, Ann Cross. She read a book in high school about ...

Caressed and nurtured by the Indian Ocean and the great Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountains, south Asia has cradled ... It is for this reason that, as a founding member, Bhutan has consistently attached ...