relics

Historical relics have also been burned to the ground - a significant loss to an area considered one of South Korea's cultural centres.

Winds had blown these ashes, relics from Altadena’s trauma, all around us.

They had been opposing plans to build the Gangtuo dam and hydropower plant, which would displace several villages and submerge ancient monasteries with sacred relics.

Once built, the dam's reservoir would submerge an area that is culturally and religiously significant to Tibetans, and home to several villages and ancient monasteries containing sacred relics.

Under heavy grey skies and a thin coating of snow, hulking grey and green Cold War relics recall Ukraine’s Soviet past.