Sep 7, 2026 10 min read
Leaving Humla: Outmigration and What Community Tourism Can Hold
Young adults leave Humla for work in India, the Gulf, Malaysia and across the border at Purang. Community tourism at Yalbang and…
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Young adults leave Humla for work in India, the Gulf, Malaysia and across the border at Purang. Community tourism at Yalbang and…
Read more →Selma Lake, also written Selima Tsho, is a glacial lake at about 4,570 m in northern Humla, in the basin below the approaches to…
Read more →Above every village in upper Humla there is grazing country used for a few months a year: yak, chauri crossbreeds, stone huts and…
Read more →The Limi Valley sits north of the Great Himalayan crest in Humla, in the rain shadow, with three villages between about 3,700 and…
Read more →Halji is the largest of the three Limi villages, at about 3,700 m, built around the eleventh-century Rinchenling monastery.…
Read more →Til is the westernmost of the three Limi villages and the first one reached from the Hilsa side. What that position means for a…
Read more →Jang is the third permanent village of the Limi Valley and the least documented place in it. What is known, what is not, why the…
Read more →Sarkegad sits at about 1,500 m on the bank of the Karnali in southern Humla. It is the last place on the corridor with shops,…
Read more →Srinagar in Adanchuli Rural Municipality sits at about 1,650 m above the Karnali gorge in lower Humla. Terraced barley, finger…
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