On the north side of the Himalaya sits the partially reconstructed Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Rongbuk, once the largest monastic center in the region. Rongbuk is the power place through which ...

Today, a boardwalk takes tourists marginally further to Rongbuk monastery – founded in 1902 and rebuilt after being damaged during the Chinese Cultural Revolution – and a final viewpoint of the north ...

"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...

2007-02-11 04:00:00 PDT Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet-- In Shangri-La there are no flush toilets. In fact, the less said about the facilities the better. Destinations all over Central Asia claim to be ...

At an elevation of about 5,000 meters, the Rongbuk Monastery located on Mount Qomolangma is the highest monastery in the world. The monastery was built in 1899 by a Ningmapa lama. The number of ...

Four months later, at the Rongbuk monastery in Tibet, Deitch pulled on a pair of hiking boots. Like thousands of other Tibetan monasteries, much of Rongbuk was destroyed by the Chinese during the ...

Tourists now must stop about a mile before base camp without a permit. China has closed its Mount Everest base camp and the area just beyond it to tourists for the foreseeable future, with ...

Other highlights include a full-day excursion to Everest Base Camp (on the Tibet side of Mount Everest) and the Rongbuk Monastery, believed to be the highest in the world. Also on the itinerary is ...