A new adrenaline-fuelled experience is allowing travellers to see the Himalayas in a new way – and helping local Sherpa ...

As the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates slowly collide, the Himalayan mountains continue to rise. However a new study suggests the Indian plate may be peeling apart, causing a slab tear. Scientists ...

The Alaknanda River winds through a dramatic Himalayan valley in Uttarakhand, India, flowing between steep green slopes, ...

Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic plates constantly moving. The height is changing because the Indian tectonic plate is pushing below the Eurasian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liddy Grossman ’23 knew she wanted her study abroad to be the experience of a lifetime. “I wanted it to take me to a part of the world I would never normally have the chance to visit,” said Grossman, ...

An American climber was rescued after she and another alpinist from the U.K. were stranded for two days at more than 20,000 feet in the Himalayan mountains. Michelle Dvorak, 31, and Fay Manners, 37, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Kashmir Valley of the Himalayan mountains could one day experience a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, larger than was previously thought possible, according to new research. New Global ...

A new Indian study finds dust storms from the Thar desert can transport disease-linked bacteria to the Eastern Himalayas, altering mountain air and raising fresh public health concerns.