A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet ... s highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers and trekkers. Winter is not a popular season ...

I was born in Kham, in eastern Tibet, my parents’ first born. A brother and sister followed, and the five of us lived with ...

Here in Part II, we break down what it takes to do Nepal's 1,750km Great Himalayan Trail, both guided and unguided.

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

Nepal, a nation famous for its grand Himalayas, offers a few of the best trekking goals in the world. From farther mountain ...

Makalu (27,838 ft.) Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world, rises high in the Mahalangur Himalayas of Nepal, near the border with Tibet. Known for its iconic pyramid shape, Makalu ...

The India-China conversation on water has, over the years, merely skimmed the surface, unable, and often unwilling, to wade ...

When China annexed Tibet, little of the river waters were being consumed on the plateau itself. This meant that nearly all the water was transferred to downstream basins, including India, Nepal ...

Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said the tremors were felt in seven hill districts bordering Tibet ... in the Himalayan mountains strong enough ...