Unusually high temperatures and a sharp drop in snowfall and rain are drying out the Western Himalayas, accelerating glacier ...

The Himalayas are known for their drama. Towering peaks, high passes, and physical challenge dominate most conversations. But ...

New Delhi — At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen injured Tuesday in India's northeast Sikkim state when a massive wall of snow cascaded down a mountain onto a Himalayan highway. The ...

Guwahati, India — Indian rescue teams searched Thursday for 102 people missing after a devastating flash flood triggered by a high-altitude glacial lake burst that killed at least 10 people, officials ...

LADAKH, India — Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India’s remote Ladakh region. A ...

This photograph shared by Indian Air Force on the X platform shows two foreign climbers, center, who were stranded in India's Himalayas posing with Indian Air Force personnel who rescued them in ...

A secret CIA mission in 1965 to spy on China resulted in a lost nuclear device on Nanda Devi. American and Indian climbers ...

In the video, the snow-covered peaks gleam under the sunlight, winding through rugged valleys and deep shadows.

It was our rest day. We were at the village of Janglic on the side of a glacial valley, 3,000 m up in India’s western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended ...

One morning 18 months ago, Jaswant Singh Butola woke to find hairline cracks had spread up the walls of his house, which overlooks a railway being built to take pilgrims to Himalayan holy sites in ...

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