
Condé Nast Traveler
On an Anniversary Trip to Bhutan, Swapping 25 Years of Whirlwind Travels for Stillness
Shunali Khullar Shroff and her husband embrace companionable silence in Bhutan.
Captain points it out from the plane window.

“Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 through a joint survey by Nepalese and Chinese authorities as 8,848.86 m.”