Tibet

For anti-China protesters, the Olympic Torch Relay is a movable feast

"You've got to be a little crazy, a little obsessed, to plunge into rivers like these," the narrator says in Expeditions to the Edge: Rampaging River (National Geographic Channel, Nov. 30, 8 p.m.). Indeed. Tibet's...

For climbers seeking unclaimed peaks, the newly opened Kham region of western China is a 700-mile smorgasbord

The current dearth of cattle drives and Cannonball Run films has profoundly reduced the list of activities in which men travel great distances while risking mortality. Fortunately, in the last dozen or so years...

When you think of the great mountains of Nepal and Tibet, you think of a ferocious wilderness—barren, windswept, yet starkly beautiful and pristine in its isolation. The facts are more mundane. The Himalayan high...