Makalu Climbing Team Retreats Shy of Summit With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the ...

While commercial planes are not specifically banned from flying over the Himalayas, there's an unsettling reason why they generally avoid doing it.

If you look at the flight paths of airplanes traveling around the world, you will notice several oddities. For example, they do not fly direct routes to their destination or avoid certain areas.

China and India have agreed to facilitate the exchange of journalists, enhance cooperation on cross-border rivers, and plan ...

What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi (1866-1945) took to enter Tibet, tucked deep in the mountains and closed to foreigners, at a time when no decent map was available. Now ...

A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least 32 people.

An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time. The discovery has allowed ...

China and India agreed to facilitate the exchange of journalists between the two countries, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

This is the segment that winds through Tibet's remote Nyainqentanglha Mountains, an area so rugged and inhospitable it was simply abandoned decades ago and the entire area closed to travelers.

where the India and Eurasia plates grind against each other and can cause earthquakes strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s tallest peaks in the Himalayan mountains. Tibet ...

The quake destroyed thousands of homes, temples and mosques and killed over 3,000 people in Tibet and more than 1,000 in Assam, India. In the hardest-hit areas, mountains shifted and landscapes ...