Himalaya

A generation of Tibetan writers, many working in English, are laying claim to the voice of exile and pushing back against the fetishisation of Tibet by the West

John Keay, Erika Fatland and Ed Douglas’ books on the Himalaya exhibit ways of seeing, or failing to see, the mountains and their people

Science, labour and the rise of altitude to measure mountains.

How recent reports on climate change weigh the economic versus the human cost of the ecological crisis.

Translated excerpt from Dor Bahadur Bista’s Nepali-language novel ‘Sotala’.

Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalaya.

In Uttarakhand, environmentalists call for disaster governance that supports local communities.

FICTION

Lack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin.

The government has not heeded the lessons from the 2013 Uttarakhand floods.