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Tibetans have a long history of using yaks. Fifty years ago an estimated one million wild yaks roamed the Tibetan plateau, but experts believe that yaks were first domesticated in Tibet at least 3000 years ago.

flowers · hills

Trekking into the Gama valley - a hidden moist valley to the north and east of Everest, in southern Tibet. This relatively unexplored region has a wealth of Himalayan and trans-Himalayan flora.

hills · snow

Located at the downstream of PumQu in Tingri county and Dinggye county, Garma valley, “the most beautiful valley in the world” is 55km from east to west and 8km from south to north, covering an area of 440km2.

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Wow - see that expedition garbage strewn across an otherwise beautiful alpine meadow - how human visitation is sullying the mountains of Tibet and the rest of the Himalaya.

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Trekkers take a rest while on Tibet game valley expedition 2016. It is hard for trekkers to climb down as the weather isn't that good and the forest have steep way down.

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For those with an interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Dra Yerpa hermitage, about 16km northeast of Lhasa, is one of the holiest cave retreat.

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Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world and it is located just 14 miles east of Mount Everest. Though the peak appears isolated, its size alone is impressive.

hills · ceremony

Commonly found amongst the indigenous mountain cults of Nepal and Tibet is the ritual of burnt offerings at the mountain summit.

flowers · hills

Himalayan blue poppy is a stunning pure blue poppy. It is native to the Himalayas, northern Burma, Tibet and Yunnan Province in China where it is typically found in shady mountain areas, mountain meadows, slopes and woodlands.

Nepal·ceremony · hills

Snow covered peaks, prayer flags, icycles and seracs as seen from Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Nowhere in the world is more spectacular than in the Everest region. It is where four of the world's six tallest peaks Mt. Everest, Mt.

hills · river

Aerial views of highest peaks of world that form a Himalayan phalanx between India and Tibet, and in the Himalayan nation of Nepal.

river · hills

Aerial view of Jomolhari peak in Bhutan & Kanchenjunga range peaks of Sikkim & Nepal. Jomolhari or Chomolhari sometimes known as "the bride of Kangchenjunga”, is a mountain in the Himalayas, straddling the border between Yadong County of Ti…

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The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains, usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya, is a mountain range which crosses Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and India.

Nepal·hills

Everest climbers take a break clicking pictures of the Himalayan peaks at the Base camp. Indian Army added another feather to its cap in May 2001, when its mountaineers successfully scaled Mount Everest and put a record eight members and se…

Nepal·aerial · hills

Kathmandu city seen aerially while flying Over Nepal. Kathmandu is the largest city and capital of Nepal and the namesake of the Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal·hills

Aerial view of Nepalese Himalayan range including Pumori to Everest massif. Pumori is a mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. Pumori lies just eight kilometres west of Mount Everest.

river · hills

Flying towards Nepal over snow covered Himalayas including Everest range. Nepal Himalayas, Kanchenjunga east-central section and highest part of the Himalayan mountain ranges in south-central Asia, extending some 500 miles (800 km) from the…

village · hills

Prayer flags atop the mountains above Ngoba village, around Chele La. Forget me not or Myosotis alpestris flowers in the meadows around.

snow · hills

Near the Chelela pass above the city of Paro in Bhutan, Rupin Dang finds a Primula calderiana flower that has just bloomed right after the snow melt.

Bhutan·hills · monsoon

Landing at Paro airport is said to be one of the more difficult landings at any airport in the world, as the valley is surrounded by steep hillsides and snow mountains and any approach or exit from the valley must be rapid and steep, in ord…

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Landing at Paro Airport is considered among the toughest airport landings in the world. The plane needs to make a steep descent amidst a valley surrounded by hills before touching down on the runway.

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A Bhutan Airlines plane takes off from Paro Airport making a steep ascent post take off from the runway for flying past the hills surrounding the Paro valley. Our camera captures the complete take off in slow motion.

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Viewers tells us that the loud roar comes from the thrust reversers at work. They make a loud howling noise. Kind of like braking. It's very normal to hear this sound when landing on a short runway.