Selected Himalayan Resources

This page contains a number of selected links to the imho some of the most informative general Himalayan resources.

Please note that due to the political situation in Nepal many nepalese links can disappear without notice.

• Overall
• himalaya.start4all.com
• The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library
• Digital Himalaya
• ANHS Himalayan Research Bulletin
• Nepal Home Page
• Nepal Tourist Board (official)
• Nepal Info
• Radio Nepal
• GORP: Nepal
• Lonely Planet: Nepal
• Northern Pakistan's Karakoram and Hindukush Mountains
• Kotan: Tibetan Cultural Region Directory
• Chamlang and Makalu Regions of Nepal
• Virtual Tourist Pre-Home Page
• Stego's Usenet FAQ on Nepal Travel (Mirror)
• Reach Ladakh
• www.himalaya-info.org, Guenter Seyfferth's collections


• Travelogues, Itineraries, Views...
• The Voyagers (Thank you, Ann-Marie!)
• Travelogues and pictorials from Nepal
• Jullay! A trek in Zanskar
• Per and Elisabeth Löwdin Travel Pages
• Scott Yost's visit to Nepal
• Carsten Nebel's itineraries, including Tibet, Ladakh, Zanskar, Dolpo, Mustang, Manaslu, Kangchenjunga
• Tilicho Trekking
• David Metsky's visit to Nepal
• Trek around Annapurna by H.S. de Jong
• GORP: Walking to RaRa Lake
• Patrick De Grande: Ladakh
• Richard Humphries
• Virtual Annapurna Trek by Mark Burvill
• Limping through The Himalayas by Shawn Hargreaves
• Travel Journal for Annapurna Trek by Jeanette Woodman
• Nepal Trek to Everest by Shaun O'Boyle
• Steve Flower's Nepal Home Page (incl. Dhaulagiri and Dhorapatan Hunting Reserve Trekking
• The Annapurna Circuit
• Kali Gandaki Trek by Keith and Jessie McKellar Stewart
• Himalaya - Khumbu Trek by Piotr Zycki
• Im Reich der Annapurnas by Andrees de Ruiter
• Reiseberichte (in German mostly)
• Annapurna Circuit Panoramic Photos
• Project Himalaya
• Himalayas Photo Gallery by Matthew Herschmann
• Trek w Khumbu (pl)


• Organisations and projects
• Dolpo Project
• HEC: Himalayan Explorers Club
• SINHAS
• Himalayan Research Bulletin Links
• Expedition Research
• Lingshed (SAMUHA)
• Traditional agriculture in Ladakh
• Lamdom Model School
• Muktinath Foundation

• Environmental issues
• Pursuing progress and losing Ladakh
• Tibet Environmental Watch
• Global Vision


• Trekking companies providing wider information
• Nepal Traveller
• Visit Nepal
• Himatrek
• Nepal Traveller
• Green Lotus Trekking
• Chandertal Tours & Himalayan Folkways
• Mindruk Spiritual Trek
• Ladakh Tourism & India Adventure Tours
• Dhaulagiri Trek
• Tenzing Travel Himalayan Trekking
• Project Himalaya
• Explore Himalaya
• Three Sisters Trekking (women guiding women)


• Books and maps
• Tibet Map
• The Geology of Zanskar
• Himalaya maps from Omni Resources
• Pilgrims
• New Tibet Book Store


• Arts
• Toru Ota: Zanskar
• Nicholas Roerich Museum
• Asian Arts
• Tara and Co.
• TibetShop
• Himalaya Gallery by Osamu Uchida


• Health in the high places
• High Altitude Medicine Guide
• Himalaya Rescue Association
• The Nepal International Clinic
• CIWEC
• Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude by Rick Curtis
• NOLS Altitude Illness
Yuthog foundation for Tibetan medicine


• Varia
• south-asia.com
• nepalnews.com [Nepali press portal]
• Karamjeet Singh's Himalayan Home
• Nepal Calendar (Festivals!)
• Nepal Research
• YetiZone Annapurna Trekker Board
• YakBone Trekker Forum
• Eine virtuelle Reise nach Nepal - dem Dach der Welt by Tim Leichter
• Forum www.dach-der-welt.de
• Dolpo Investigations
• Plans, plans, plans...