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

Amit Sharma “To understand the Himalayas is to understand the pulse of the Earth itself” a famous quote by the Indian ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in ...

A vast railway line will be made up of tunnels passing through 105 miles (170km) above the clouds - if Beijing's project ever gets off the ground.

This journey takes us on an exploration journey around the Himalayas. We discover the cultural heritage of the sacred land of ...

All of these mountians reside in the Himalayan and Karakorum mountain ranges in Asia and reach into the rarefied and dangerous strata known as the ‘Death Zone’. Legendary Italian climber ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve ...

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, ...

Gurgaon: The elusive mountain scops-owl (Otus spilocephalus) — sometimes referred to as the spotted scops owl — was ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global ... but their abundance and rates of growth have risen ...