By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Unseasonally heavy snow has prompted authorities in the Tibet side of Mount Everest to halt ...

Unseasonal heavy snow led to the closure of visitor access to the Tibet side of Mount Everest. A cyclone affecting India ...

Clear skies, calm winds and a panoramic view of Himalayan peaks draped in snow - that is the autumn hikers on Mount Everest have come to love. But that seems to be changing. The monsoon now stretches ...

A menacing 50-degree slope and 9,000 feet straight down: that’s the terrain American mountaineer Jim Morrison tackled when he ...

A CEBUANO tattoo artist has recently completed a challenging trek from Lukla to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, one of the ...

Glaciers in the Everest region of the Himalayas could decline by as much as 99 percent by 2100 due to warming temperatures and some could disappear. A team of researchers in Nepal, France and the ...

Devastating earthquakes are an inevitable fact of life in the Himalaya, thanks to the powerful forces that created this awesome mountain range. For over 50 million years, the Indian continental plate ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded ...