Upper Mustang continues to be Nepal’s most tempting trekking place today, with the combination of rich history, Tibetan culture, and dramatic landscape. From the ancient monasteries and enigmatic ...

In the 18th century it was assimilated into Nepal ... we do. Mustang’s history is a chronicle of intense physical hardship and spiritual striving, the symbols of which are mountains and monasteries.

Autumn has just arrived in Mustang, north of the Annapurna range in Nepal, and it’s already cold enough for our toes to curl up inside our shoes. To the west, behind the mountains high enough to ...

In Nepal’s fabled Mustang region, the Kingdom of Lo houses ... making the three-week journey across the mountains as his ancestors had done to honor the treaty with the Nepali king.

Yet today’s Mustang—as recent scholarship ... We are a small community, a small mountain village, in one corner of beyond the Himalayas. Even Nepal’s government believes we are beyond ...