Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

Twin brothers have conquered a Himalayan mountain, one dressed in modern clothing, the other wearing a replica of kit worn by ...

The ‘World’s Most Intrepid Twins’ have conquered a Himalayan mountain – wearing replica of kit worn by British explorers 100 ...

For over 50 years, Elizabeth Hawley documented Himalayan expeditions. We commemorate her birthday by revisiting some of her important investigations.

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 ...

Scientists have found that, despite a vast difference in precipitation between the north and south sides of the Himalaya Mountains, rates of erosion are indistinguishable across these mountains. Santa ...

Rescuers in Nepal airlifted some injured climbers to safety. The avalanche followed heavy snowfall produced by Cyclone Montha ...

Three climbers, including a foreign national, were killed and eight others were missing after an avalanche hit a climbing expedition on a Himalayan peak in Nepal, police said on Monday.

BRECKENRIDGE Mountain to Mountain, the Breckenridge-based organization dedicated to promoting education and community development in remote mountain communities, will host a Views of the Himalaya ...