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

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Restaurants across India, Nepal, and Bhutan are serving momo tasting menus, yak carpaccio, butter tea ice cream, and ...

More and more, mountain snow in the Mount Everest region is vanishing into thin air. The snow line on Mount Everest's ...

Arjun Vajpai is on a mission. He wants to become the first Indian to have summitted all the 14 peaks higher than 8,000 metres ...

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 ...

Picking up the camera in the late 19th century, clearness of vision, sharpness and luminosity define the pioneering mountain ...

An ongoing art exhibition in Delhi is offering a rare glimpse into some of the earliest high-altitude photographs of the Himalayas ... the world's third-highest mountain, and K2, the second ...

Sikkim is a small Himalayan state in north-east India ... The Sikkim GLOF event joins a chain of recent disasters in high-mountain Asia that have destroyed hydropower plants. Given the sheer “physical ...