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 ...

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.

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.

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

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

"The fragile environment of Mount Kailash, one of the most sacred mountains in the world, may be under threat from Chinese development plans to increase tourism to western Tibet. A 'ring road', which ...

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 ...

Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many ... clash and cause uplifts in the Himalayan mountains strong enough to change the heights of some ...

Tibet, meanwhile, is behaving like a giant roadblock ... much the same in profile then as it does now. There will be tall mountains in the north, smaller ones in the south, and the north/south ...

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 ...