Each of India's major mountain ranges has a distinct character, offering travelers a chance to take in gorgeous scenery and a wealth of plants and animals.

Elite alpinists Fay Manners of the UK and Michelle Dvorak of the U.S. have been missing for over 36 hours at 6,500m on Chaukhamba III. The 6,974m peak lies in the Gangotri group of mountains in ...

India’s most extensive survey of the ‘ghosts of the mountains’ highlighted the importance of shared landscapes and ...

It's home to Anamudi, India's tallest peak outside of the Himalayas. The area's rolling mountain ranges are often shawled in thick mists and dense vegetation.

Manners, a Briton living in France, and Dvorak, an American, had been “absolutely desperate” to reach the summit of the unclimbed peak in India’s northern Uttarakhand state.

After all, Himalayan landslides aren’t consigned to the past. In 2021, an avalanche and rockslide careened down a mountainside in Uttarakhand, India, around 300 miles northwest of Annapurna.

Joshimath town is seen along side snow capped mountains, in India's Himalayan mountain state of Uttarakhand, Jan. 21, 2023. For months, residents in Joshimath, a holy town burrowed high up in ...