Himalayan mysteries of the utopia Shangri-La

Pakistan's Himalayas and the Mysteries of Shangri-La Utopia

(Timeline, 7/13/19) World History Documentaries: Legend tells of a utopian Buddhist kingdom hidden among the towering mountains of inner Asia.

Gandhara Buddha, from Swat, Pakistan (wiki)

A paradise on Earth, it was yet a place apart, a place of spiritual contentment and eternal life, a place that has become known in the West as "Shangri-La."

For centuries romantics, adventurers, and the devout risked their lives searching for this heaven on Earth. Many perished in the quest.

Those who returned told of a journey through hostile lands, of crossing frosty mountain passes and desert gorges in their search for a valley where people live for hundreds of years.

To this day its whereabouts remains a mystery... David Adams goes in search of Shangri-La in the icy valleys of the Himalayan and Karakoram Mountains in Far North Pakistan, formerly the Buddha's homeland of Gandhara of the Scythians (now NE Afghanistan and Pakistan next to NW India).

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