Under the Himalayas

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In ancient Asia, a land full of mysteries and civilizations, some people still lead a life in the most primitive way: they live, produce, carry things on shoulders, pick things by hands, travel on foot and migrate……they help develop a way of making a living and create a human landscape. With all the sufferings they bear, they have preserved what modern city-dwellers call “culture”. Yet, these people have only one simple goal - to survive. In the documentary series 'Under the Himalayas', a programme of five half-hour episodes, we shall leave solid footprints in five different places: taking the highest peak in the world Mount Everest as the centre of a circle, we shall lead the audience on voyage along the northwest region of China to the treacherous Huashan, going across Gan-Shaan plain and Xinjiang terrain, passing through Qinghai into the mysterious Tibetan area, crossing the border via the glacier for taking a break at the foot of Mount Everest in Nepal before arriving at the ancien

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