The repeat photography in this book has provided us a view of northwest Yunnan across space and time. It is...
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Nitong Village Roofs, Deqin County Retreating glaciers can have impacts on communities, such as water supply and landslide hazards; however,...
Glaciers of Khawa Karpo, Deqin County The mountain scenery of the Khawa Karpo Range has become a popular atraction on...
Qome of the most dramatic and observable effects of rapid changes in the) Earth's climate system occur at high latitudes...
Ninong Forest, Deqin County In this set of images, we are fortunate to view the forests above Ninong village at...
Moon Rock, Gongshan County Andre Guibaut and Louis Liotard were leaders of a French anthropological expedition to the Nu River...
The mountains of northwest Yunnan support more than 10 types Iof forest, each one occupying a unique place along two...
Miancimu Peak, Deqin County Miancimu is the wife to the god Khawa Karpo and the goddess peak of the sacred...
Tthree of the world's greatest rivers traverse northwest Yunnan in parallel valleys, flowing a mere 63 kilometers (40 miles) apart...
This article Lfocuses on the other defining physical feature of northwest Yunnan: the high mountains that run in long parallel...
Jinsha River at Qizong, Weixi County This photo point is at the edge of downtown Qizong looking north, upstream. The...
Baihanluo Church, Gongshan County Here we see the Baihanluo Church that was built in 1905. The compound has deteriorated since...
Dongzhu Monastery, Deqin County In Rock's day, the Dongzhu Monastery occupied this prominent knoll between the mountains above and the...
Deqin Monastery, Deqin County The next three photo sequences are of the Deqin Monastery illustrating its dynamic history over the...
Cizhong Church, Deqin County One of the most important outposts of the Paris Foreign Missions Society was this church in...
Each ethnic group in northwest Yunnan had its own spiritual beliefLsystem, often involving some form of deity worship represented by...
Multure and environment change continuously. The rate of change varies/widely, however, and nowhere is it more dramatically visible than in...
Most people in nothwest Yuan live in smal villges that semingy Like most mountain people in the world, they live...
long with yaks and Buddhism, tea is a defining feature of Tibetan Aculture, yet the beverage is brewed with leaves...
As I searched for old photographs of northwest Yunnan,I became increasingly amazed at how well traveled the area was by...