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.

In April, the decades-old conflict between nuclear-armed neighbours flared up again when militants in India-controlled Kashmir killed 26 people.

Rivers originating in the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau that sustain the inhabitants of the mountains as well as 1 billion Asians downstream will have less water in the dry season in the coming ...

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.

Previous publications include the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Report (Wester et al., 2019) – the first comprehensive assessment on mountains, climate change, sustainability and people and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A helicopter carrying a number of people to holy sites in the Himalayan mountains in India has crashed, killing seven people. Passengers on the small Bell 407 helicopter included one child, when ...