We set off for Zanskar in the dark. Along with my husband Tanzin and our two-year-old daughter, we have with us my mother-in-law Abe le, nephew Kalsang, a cook, and a driver. The dawn when it comes is ...

A British piano teacher embarks on a dangerous trek to the Himalayas in the documentary 'Piano to Zanskar.' By Stephen Farber Although some might have political objections to a film that celebrates ...

Snowed under for seven months a year, when it’s denizens can reach the outside world only by walking on the frozen Zanskar River, the remote Zanskar Valley is perhaps one of the last Shangri Las. It ...

Snowed under for seven months a year, when its denizens can reach the outside world only by walking on the frozen Zanskar river, the remote Zanskar Valley is perhaps one of the last Shangri Las. It is ...

This story was originally published Sept. 6. Waist-deep snow makes winter travel very difficult in the Zanskar region of the Indian Himalayas. Calgary's Ben Stephenson discovered that first-hand while ...

My Lahauli friends chide me for being too upbeat about trekking to Zanskar solo, without a map, a tent or a sleeping bag. “Even we locals don’t go alone”, they say. This is why: The Zanskar region, ...

Zanskar Sub-Divisional Magistrate Sonam Dorjay took a hard trek of five hours to reach the remote village on Sunday and handed over the satellite phone to local resident Tsewang Rangdol to connect the ...

The remote Himalayan region of Zanskar is cut off from the rest of the world by snow for more than half the year but the gradual progress of a new road will eventually give the community a permanent ...