A hunt for elusive treasure in a stark and staggeringly beautiful landscape. It’s not hard to see what lured Getty photojournalist Kevin Frayer to the remote mountains and grasslands of the Tibetan ...

DAMSHUNG, Tibet — For centuries, change came only with the seasons to Tibet’s alpine grasslands, painted rusty yellow in winter and emerald green in summer. Yaks and sheep roamed free in lush pastures ...

Ganzi, China, Jun 1 (efe_epa).Ganzi, China, Jun 1 (efe_epa). — Luo Zha is one of hundreds of thousands of former nomadic Tibetans who live in settlements created by China as part of a government ...

Zhaxi Cairang is trying to give his son a choice of two worlds to live in: the traditional, pastoral world of Tibetan nomads, which he has inhabited for most of his 59 years, or the modern urban ...

Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad's way of life has changed in hundreds of years. Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope ...

Another harsh winter this year in the part of the Tibetan Plateau that is located in Nepal’s Upper Mustang region has resulted in a massive loss of livestock. Mustang’s nomads have been particularly ...

LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven hours ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — A 24-year-old Tibetan nomad set fire to himself Friday to protest China’s rule in the third reported self-immolation within a week, said the London-based Tibetan rights group Free ...

A Tibetan nomad died after setting fire to himself in Qinghai province. This is the latest case in a wave of similar protests that started in 2009 when a monk named Tapey self-immolated during the ...