Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. A glacial lake outburst flood in the ...

Researchers studying the Qomolangma National Nature Reserve in southern Tibet installed 200 infrared camera traps in the summer of 2023, hoping to catch a glimpse of cat species in the area, according ...

Some mountains have permanent coverings of ice and snow – the Himalayas have more ice than anywhere outside the polar regions (they’re sometimes called the ‘third pole’). In many places, people depend ...

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are expanding at an alarming rate, increasing the risk of catastrophic floods for nearby ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were ...

KATHMANDU – Raging water disrupted life in Thame village—home to some of Nepal’s famed Sherpas—when a glacial lake in the ...

An overview of Bhutan, including key facts about this small Himalayan kingdom ... workers in the village of Mana. At least 25 people are still missing in a remote part of the country's north.

An early idea came from Leonardo da Vinci, who had found fossils in a mountain cave, and was presented with marine fossils by locals when he was living ... found across the Himalayas, and finds ...

Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations ...