Himalayan Road: A New Frontier

About Himalayan Road: A New Frontier

Once free to farm in the most remote part of the Himalayas, today the people labor on the ambitious road to Zanskar, which will soon connect both sides of their valley. Their days are devoted to breaking rocks with sledgehammers, dynamiting sections of cliffs and smoothing piles of sand and gravel by hand.

Marianne Chaud's Himalayan Road: A New Frontier is a 2025 documentary film. It runs 85 minutes and was released in August 2025.

The film is filed under village, reflective, isolation, and observational documentary.

Marianne Chaud appears as Self - Narrator (French version), and Sharon Mann as Self - Narrator (English version). The screenplay is by Marianne Chaud.

Awaker, Eat Pray Love, and Baraka make useful companions to Himalayan Road: A New Frontier, all filed under community and mountains.