As the train heads around the Kunlun Mountains, the inside darkens from the shadows caused by looming ice and snow. The total journey from Xining to Lhasa takes 21 hours and 30 minutes to complete.

A late night journey to the summit of the mythological Kunlun mountain, in search of jade palaces and the peaches of immortality. Show more In his second series for The Essay, composer Erland ...

“This one was born in the silence of the Kunlun Mountains,” Pagani said, referring to a mountain range in western China. “A one-off Zonda, entirely reimagined—outside and in—following ...