Welcome to Shangri La Home Page!

Site Created: November 1994

Shangri La is my idea of abstracting the Nature of the entire Himalaya Range and the vicinity as one integral habitat, spanning from the northern rim of Burma (Myanmar) along India, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet (China) to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Shangri La attempts to ignore all national and regional boundaries and detach itself from human activities, existing in the perfection of "raw" nature. Although this comes at a loss of excluding the diversity of the people in the region and the richness of their culture, I hope this helps Shangri La remain disinterested and undivided along ethnic lines.

On the other hand, with the increasing dominance of human beings over nature, one can hardly abstract Nature in pure isolation. There is always some kind of association of the unknown with the known and established world. Yet, references to human beings and human artefacts, wherever made, are primarily for identification or within an historical setting.

Finally, Shangri La, here, is a personal notion, not a fictional place.

The Pinnacles - Identify the peaks, some 275 known ones here, that make up the Himalaya Range, east to west. Also, take a look at the Ascent to Everest page.