Shangri-La Shangri-La Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of the exoticism of the
Lost Horizon (video game) Lost Horizon (video game) Lost Horizon is a historical point-and-click adventure video game developed by Animation Arts and published by Deep Silver in 2010 for Microsoft Windows. On October 8, 2013, Animation Arts announced that a sequel for "Lost Horizon" is in development. "Lost Horizon 2" was released on October 2, 2015 and it takes place 20 years after the events of the first game. In 1936, in the Khembalung Valley in Tibet, a detachment of British soldiers, sent out on an expedition by the British government to map the country, are ambushed by soldiers of the Third Reich at