Cocooned by the Himalayas and landlocked by China and India, Nepal’s untamed natural beauty will send a tingle down your ...

Dr. Adina Racoviteanu has been leading a UNESCO-supported project focusing on protecting Himalayan Mountain communities from ...

Kayin State, 290 km east of Yangon, Myanmar What to Expect: Limestone caves like Saddar, a mountaintop monastery on Mount Zwegabin with sunset views, and lush rice paddies. Rent a bike to explore or ...

Hotter temperatures have melted as much as a quarter of Himalayan glacial ice in the ... not include the huge adjoining ranges of high-mountain Asia such as the Pamir, Hindu Kush, or Tian Shan ...

High above the crowded plains and winding rivers of Asia, the Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountains have always stood as guardians ... This relentless loss of ice and snow is rewriting the hydrological maps ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water, scientists warned ...

Expeditions to the high Himalayas to retrieve rock samples and map visible faults ... still pushing the mountain upward. While the collision between the Indian plate and Asia was working to ...

Also known as E1, as it is often considered part of Everest, Lhotse is another tall mountain in Asia from the Himalayan range. Comprising three peaks, with Lhotse I being the highest at 8,516 meters, ...

The Himalayan water cycle starts from monsoon moisture that precipitates with orographic uplift along the mountains ... map, below). The thread running through all three books is the need to recognise ...

This is a major creative leap for a cuisine historically centered on surviving the harsh mountain climate. Though the Himalayas include a range of topographies (from tropical forests to snow ...

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 Himalaya ... two maps shows the change in LHI under the two scenarios for 2091-2100 relative to 1990-2014:- Change in the LHI from 1990–2014 to 2091–2100 for the high mountains of Asia ...