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 ...

Maybe that's why so many civilizations have looked at mountains and seen something more than just rock and altitude. Maybe it's why, in India, some peaks aren’t just geography—they are ...

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.

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.

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.

India last week heard for the first time the full story of Constable Karam Singh. A stocky, moon-faced Sikh with a curly black mustache, Karam Singh. 49, was the commander of the Indian police ...

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 ...