Extreme altitudes, and the harsh weather conditions associated with them, present an almost insurmountable hurdle for most people, primarily because of the scarcity of oxygen, which requires ...

In a paper for the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers note that native ethnic Tibetan women ...

Sgrolmamtsho is a peasant woman of 35 who lives in an impoverished agricultural community in the Tibetan province of Amdo When she got married in 1993 she was only 21 and had no experience of work ...

The death toll stood at 126 as of Tuesday evening. The quake struck the city of Xigaze, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.

When I was a child my grandmother and mother told me many stories about Tibet, but after the huge uprising in 2008 I felt that the time had come to write everything down, and to talk about Tibetan ...

Jetsun Chee grew up with cricket being played almost everywhere around her. Now she is Mumbai's first-ever professional ...