Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, my colleagues and I set down our equipment. We’re at the base of a jagged outcrop that protrudes upwards out of a steep gravel slope. The muffled soundscape ...

With global warming accelerating, the Himalayas and high altitudes in the mountain range are warming 50 percent faster than ...

The International Mountain Day (IMD) is being celebrated today with a variety of programmes across the world and in Nepal too ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India’s remote Ladakh ...

BENGALURU, India — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain range and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t ...

As Nepal’s high mountains, including Mount Everest, have been struggling with decades of waste accumulation, the Nepali government has introduced a five-year plan to keep the mountains clean.

Away from busy trails, some Himalayan lakes remain untouched and peaceful. Here are a few lesser-known spots, offering space, ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

At least 10 people have been declared dead and 18 remain missing in the Himalayan mountains of India after several dozen mountaineers were caught in an avalanche Tuesday, police said Wednesday.

Social media users on platforms like Reddit and Instagram have widely circulated the claim that wild cannabis grows naturally and abundantly in the Himalayas. Users in communities such as r/pics and r ...

Unusually high temperatures and a sharp drop in snowfall and rain are drying out the Western Himalayas, accelerating glacier ...