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)
• Radio Nepal
• Lonely Planet: Nepal
• Kotan: Tibetan Cultural Region Directory
• www.himalaya-info.org, Guenter Seyfferth's collections
• Stego's Usenet FAQ on Nepal Travel
• Reach Ladakh
• Trek Info
• www.trekkingguide.de
• Bhutan treks with Bart Jordans
• Serindia Publications, Books on Himalayan Art and Culture


• Travelogues, Itineraries, Views...
• Travelogues and pictorials from Nepal
• Per and Elisabeth Löwdin Travel Pages
• The Voyagers (Thank you, Ann-Marie!)
• Scott Yost's visit to Nepal
• Carsten Nebel's itineraries
• David Metsky's visit to Nepal
• Trek around Annapurna by H.S. de Jong
• Annapurna Base Camp, Ellen and Steve
• Limping through The Himalayas by Shawn Hargreaves
• Nepal Trek to Everest by Shaun O'Boyle
• The Rangichangi Trekking Guides by Steven Flower
• Yeti Zone
• Asia Photo Gallery by Piotr Zycki
• Nepal-Dia by Andrées de Ruiter
• Destination Manang
• Reiseberichte (in German mostly)
• Project Himalaya
• Himalayas Photo Gallery by Matthew Herschmann
• Himalayas trekking in pictures
• Great Himalayan Trail, 2008 (Kangchenjunga - Solo Khumbu), by brosenbaum1


• Organisations and projects, institutions
• Himalayan Explorers Club (HEC)
• The International Porter Protection Group (IPPG)
• Kathmandu Environmental Education Project (KEEP)
• SINHAS
• Himalayan Research Bulletin Links
• Muktinath Foundation
• Mountain Fund
• Nepal Mountaneering Association
• Ministry of Tourism..., Nepal
• Nepal Tourism Board

• 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

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


• Trekking companies providing wider information
• TAAN
• Nepal Traveller
• Visit Nepal
• Himatrek
• Nepal Traveller
• Green Lotus Trekking
• Chandertal Tours & Himalayan Folkways
• Mindruk Spiritual Trek
• Ladakh Tourism & India Adventure Tours
• Project Himalaya
• Explore Himalaya


• Books and maps
• Himalaya maps from Omni Resources
• Pilgrims
• Nepal Topographic Maps, omnimap
• Nepal Topographic Maps, mapsworldwide.com
• NGIIP, National Geographic Information Infrastructure Programme, Nepal
• Aree Greul mountain-bookshop.de Nepal sheets index
• Series U502, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955- from University of Texas
• Blank on the Map
• US military, Blank on the Map
• Soviet military, Blank on the Map


• Arts
• Olivier Föllmi, Föllmi spirit,
• Eric Valli
• Osamu Uchida
• Around Annapurna, The Way to Everest, Amazing Helambu, by Andreas Stimm
• Toru Ota: Zanskar
• Nicholas Roerich Museum
• Asian Arts
• Tara and Co.
• TibetShop


• Varia
• south-asia.com
• nepalnews.com [Nepali press portal]
• nepalnews.net [Nepali news portal]
• www.nepalmountainnews.com
• ekantipur.com [Nepali news portal, Kantipur]
• The Kathmandu Post
• The Himalayan Times
• Karamjeet Singh's Himalayan Home
• Nepal Calendar (Festivals!)
• Nepal Research
• Visit Nepal
• trekinfo.com
• YetiZone Annapurna Trekker Board
• YakBone Trekker Forum
• Eine virtuelle Reise nach Nepal - dem Dach der Welt by Tim Leichter
• Trekking Forum