At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The river, which few people knew about except geographers, diplomats and military personnel - staff officers in Delhi and ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

Currently, the Eastern Himalaya has the greatest risk. These maps compare landslide hazard indicator (LHI) changes in High Mountain Asia, showing anticipated risks over 2091 to 2100, compared to the ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

The attempt by President Donald Trump and his aide, Elon Musk, to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, a ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Sanborn maps were ... sliding under Asia, but because it’s made of tougher stuff than the oceanic plate it didn’t just descend. The surface started to buckle, pushing the crust and crumples of ...

The park’s landscape is shaped by rugged mountain ridges ... snow-clad summits are often compared to the great Himalayan spires, and it's easy to see why. The resemblance is striking, with ...

From the temple site, the clear morning allows us to spot the snowcapped peaks of the Himalayas in the distance. Our guide tells us the story of the temple, believed in the Hindu religion to be ...