Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

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NORLHA: CELEBRATING TEN YEARS

An anniversary makes us look back and take measure of where we are now versus what we were then. Ten years ago this time, Norlha moved into its...

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The third and last day is the wildest. Around 3:00 pm the tent dismantling process begins, and along with that, the water fights, pitting men a...

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Norlha is a member of a closely knit community where relations between people and those with animals are closely synched in the rhythm of every...

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On the second day, the games begin; traditional games like tug of war and races, party games like eating a dangling apple or feeding each other...

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Tibetan picnics are a world unto themselves, a celebration of summer, of blue skies with billowing clouds, of green expanses; a time to enjoy n...

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In Tibet, men and women wear the same outer garment, the chuba, though they do it in different ways. The women wear their chubas ankle length, ...

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Andrew Taylor is from Los Angeles, California and this is his second year at Norlha. Andrew is a tutor to two little girls during the day, and ...

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Mud walls, often seen as the poorer relative to stone, have stood the test of time as well, if not better than their stone counterparts. Among ...

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Willard Johnson is from Seattle, Washington. He studied at MIT and after graduating pursued his passion for basketball, playing on teams in Aus...

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Compassion is the core of Buddhist practice. Developed through mind training, it is generated by considering all sentient beings as one’s mothe...

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For Norlha employees, who lived as nomads, work at the atelier is a new chapter in their lives. Though sheltered from the snow, rain and snow, ...

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Traditional nomad women have hard lives. The generation of women now in their sixties typically bore a dozen children, many having experienced ...