The Nehru Wangchuck Cultural Center, India House, and Bhutan Echoes hosted the Bhutanese launch of “The Whispering Mountains: Marvellous Folktales from the Himalayas”, a captivating collection of ...

Also known as E1, as it is often considered part of Everest, Lhotse is another tall mountain in Asia from the Himalayan range. Comprising three peaks, with Lhotse I being the highest at 8,516 meters, ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, a UN ...

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

To reduce carbon emission, energy transition from fossil fuel to green energy, India has taken decision to have renewable ...

It is also a huge challenge in itself simply to cross the lofty and fragile Himalayan range, ecology issues aside. The mountain range has average elevations beyond 4000 metres, with nine of the ...

The Himalayas are on the verge of losing 80% of their glaciers by the end of this century. This may affect the monsoons, ...

This is the story of early expeditions to British Columbia's Mount Waddington, known as the Mystery Mountain because of its ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.