Nepal’s Department of Tourism is determined to enlarge its list of 8,000m peaks by adding six secondary summits on Kangchenjunga and Lhotse. However, this will not change international criteria or mountaineering history around the 14 highest peaks on Earth. explorersweb.com/like-it-or-n...

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A Nepali honey hunter. Photograph by Eric Valli.

Panar Bugyal, India. Photographed by Praveen Purohit.

Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.

The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.

'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.

Every time I see stories of Tasmanian tiger’s revival these days, I can’t stop thinking of this haunting movie called The Hunter where a brooding Willem Defoe is tasked to find the last Tasmanian tiger’s DNA by a military biotech company. Highly recommend watching it, gripping and poignant!

"Why kick the cat?" - @brewster.kahle.org, speaking to Daniel Wu of the Washington Post about the attacks against the Internet Archive ➡️ wapo.st/4f998w2

Nicholas Roerich, 'Patrol of Himalayas'

戦史ファン御用達のOsprey社は、本当に「よくそこを！」という本を出すけど、これもその一冊。「Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan」、チベット仏教の広がりを受けヒマラヤにどんな城、要塞が作られたかという内容。買ってしまった。