Key Monastery

Key Monastery, also written Ki, Kye or Kee Gompa, rises out of a conical hill above the Spiti River in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, roughly twelve kilometres north of the valley town of Kaza. At an altitude of about 4,166 metres, or 13,668 feet, it is the largest and one of the oldest monastic complexes in the Spiti Valley, and its silhouette of whitewashed chambers stacked in irregular tiers against...