These are said to have been the inspiration for the writer James Hilton and his novel Lost Horizon, about a remote monastery in the Himalayas.

Here could be the real Shangri-la, I thought, the setting for James Hilton's romantic novel Lost Horizon.

Amazing power metal band Lost Horizon performing their first track Pure in this live concert....

The entrance to Shangri-La visually quotes the 1937 film Lost Horizon.

With the 1937 movie "Lost Horizon," Shangri-La entered the vocabulary, evoking welcome, secrecy and unexpected beauty.

Ojai and the surrounding area was used as the backdrop for the 1937 Frank Capra film Lost Horizon.

That hidden city of peace and brotherly love, Shangri-La, in the film "Lost Horizon" (1937), was a modern white pavilion, another candidate for fairdom.

James Hilton's utopian novel Lost Horizon.

He was promoted to art director and worked on Frank Capra's 1937 film classic, "Lost Horizon."

'Shangri-La is a mystical, harmonious valley', or so goes the description in James Hilton's 1933 novel, Lost Horizon.