Where snowcaps whisper, monasteries hum, and the land feels like a prayer. Somewhere between the sharp edges of the Eastern Himalayas and the soft heartbeat of ancient traditions lies Sikkim. It is ...

As a debutante and a Sarah Law rence graduate (in Oriental studies), Hope Cooke had a crush on Central Asia. Her dreams seemed to come ro mantically true last March when she married Sikkim’s Crown ...

Down through the years, as the zing of arrows gave way to the boom of the bomb, the people who live on the roof of the world never complained about all the noise down below. All they asked was to be ...

King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim with his wife Hope Cooke. Nearly half-a-century after the overthrow of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the 12 th and last Chogyal of Sikkim ...

Sikkim lies in the eastern Himalayas and is one of India's most peaceful mountain destinations. The state is crowned by ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters. Experts from the global Earth ...