Links

• Hiking in the Himalayas and the rest of the world (Marches lontaines), very nice pictures
• Very nice travelogues and pictures from all around the world, even if a little crowded by Amazon advertisements (A. Ingram)
• Digital Himalayas Archive sponsored by Cambridge/Cornell Universities. Includes rare footage from the Nepal Himalayas and Nagaland by C. Fürer-Haimendorf. For instance this one of Arunachalian shamans, filmed in 1944-5.
• A beautiful picturesque and informative journey to "High Asia".
• Michael Palin in the Himalays
• Excellent guides to the peaks of the world - peakware.com and Mountainzone
• Description of treks all over Central Asia and the Himalayas
• (Barnes family) Nice gallery from a travel agency
• Ives and Messerli (1989): The Himalayan Dilemma. Reconciling development and conservation. UN University Press. Very interesting book, with a good description of geographical dynamics of the region.
• Wikipedia: Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism
• Commentary/news from greater Asia: Asia Times
• Very nice site with great travelogues by Carsten Nebel.
• Nice French site about the peoples of Tibet and Himalaya - only in French however
• Per Lowdin's description of several different treks and climbs, in both India and Nepal
• Yetizone Himalayan trekking forum
• Lost in the Himalayas blog

India

South Delhi family on the road, 2004

• India Travel Forum
• Lost In The Himalaya- People who have disappeared!
• Indian Railways online
• The weather in India
• Government sites: Directory of Indian government internet sites, Indian embassies
• Single best guide to Hindu temples of India - direct link to Himalayan section
  
• The Hindu, Times of India, Hindustan Times

Himachal Pradesh

• Government of Himachal Pradesh - History of Himachal Pradesh - Clickable district maps - Himachal Tourism: Trekking routes descriptions - Kinnaur district
  
• Wikipedia: Himachal Pradesh
• Alessio Comotto's site on Spiti, with very beautiful pictures. Currently being built and soon also featuring a book on Spiti. Visit: Alex's Guide to Spiti
  
• This Danish meditation site has interviews with many Hindu and Shaivist saints from the Southern part of Himachal Pradesh, as well as some trekking pictures.
  
• Nice Himachal blog
• Good French site, includes descriptions of treks from Manali-Dharamsala, Manali-Leh, and across Zanskar. Also in English language!
• Exhibition from Indira Gandhi center for arts about Kullu and Malana festivals.
• A nice travelogue of a trek from Manikaran, Parvati Valley
• This Indian site mainly has descriptions of treks in Himachal Pradesh, but also a bit of Sikkim and Ladakh.

Zanskar & Ladakh

Leaving Padum, Zanskar, India

• Wikipedia entrance (Ladakh), (Zanskar)

Trekking

• Nice travelogue, 1997
• Good guide and introduction to the areas (French)
• VERY nice pictures, Flash and text from Ladakh, Zanskar, Spiti and more. (Uwe Dürigen, in German)
• Nice pictures (Swiss Geological Survey)
• Some pictures from Ladakh (Italian)
• My own page on a Zanskar-Ladakh trek

Cycling

• Bill Weir's beautiful cycling tour of Zanskar and Ladakh
• Swedish cycling through Ladakh
  

• Description of school project Jamyang Ling in Zanskar, Jamyang foundation for helping Himalayan women
  

Nepal

• Danish Nepalese friendship association (DK)
• Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (DK) Nepal
• Nice pictures from Kathmandu
• Nepal diary, from a 2 week trip
• Nice German Khumbu site (Khumbu is the region of Mt. Everest and several other 8000 m.+ peaks),
  
• Could Nepal be the country in the world with the highest share of political journalists per capita? That's my (rather unsubstantiated) theory. Anyway, read some news from Nepal: Nepalnews, Nepalresearch, Kantipur online, Himalayan Times, Nepal Monitor, Nepali Times
  
• Extensive photoarchive from premier newssite Nepalnews.com - culture, politics, and not least: loads of pictures of demonstrations and sit-ins.
  
• An anthropological study of Newar culture
• Nepalese trekking forum - find a guide here, etc
• Free book by Stanley F. Stevens (1993): Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya. A very nice anthropological study on the Khumbu (Everest) area.
• Beautiful photo journalism by Chess Edwards

Trekking

• Information about trekking areas and necessary permits from the Government of Nepal. Includes much useful travel info on Nepal in general as well.
• TAAN - Trekking Agencies' Association Nepal
  
• Nepal trekking and mountaineering: Mera Peak as well as Makalu / Everest Base camps. Very nice! (Geoff Ingliss)
• National Geographic articles on Nepal and trekking around Pokhara (Lauri Hafvenstein)
• Trekking Agents Association of Nepal
  
• Kathmandu-Everest base camp trek (Potterfield)
• Jiri-Base camp-Gokyo trek, (Nancy and Mike Zrymiak)
• Account of trek to Marpha Valley
• Very nice photos from Annapurna (Henk de Jong)
• Latest news from Everest Base Camp.
• Project Himalaya list of trekking peaks
• Description of trek around Annapurna, with ice pictures - see, for instance, the section with photos of porters. (young Nepali porter).
  
  

Pakistan, Central Asia, Xinjiang & Tibet

• Photo's of Tibet from the American military expedition of 1942-3. And a postcard from Heinrich Harrer (!)
• Independent guide to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (P. Flener)
• Kyrgyzstan: Terskey-Alatau trek
• A typical 'revisionist' article about Tibet and Dalai Lama. While I don't agree with this more than 50%, it is necessary to read other articles than those by the Free Tibet Movement. Particularly recommended is the book by Patrick French: "Tibet, Tibet", which is listed to the left. For more scholarly treatments of Tibetan History, Melvyn Goldstein is the name to look for.
  
• Article from Der Spiegel about another Tibetan Shangri-La

• Links on religion in the Himalayas

Sun shining in potato fields, Keylong, Himachal Pradesh, 2004