Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India's remote Ladakh region.

What do an orphan from Lucerne and a geologist from Western Switzerland have in common? A fascination with mysterious creatures – and the field of cryptozoology.

Vinod Kapri’s “Pyre,” an intimate drama about an elderly couple struggling to survive in the remote Indian Himalayas, has ...