“Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously replied when asked in 1923 his motivation for challenging the world’s highest peak. Yet long before Mallory’s linguistic minimalism Everest was there, a ...

A mountain map of the snowy Himalayas recently went viral on social media, Yangtse Evening Post reported. Dubbed the "the greatest ever map of Himalaya", the picture has received more than 20 million ...

Google today released a new application designed to get kids to explore the world using maps and 3D imagery. The new app, which the company describes as “an experiment,” takes advantage of Google Maps ...

Scientists may have just toppled a 100-year-old theory about what holds up the highest mountain range on Earth, new research shows. The Himalayan mountains formed in the collision between the Asian ...

Located in the Karakoram mountain range, K2 is the second tallest peak after Everest, reaching a height of 8,611 meters. This mountain was discovered by an English surveyor named Thomas George ...

New Delhi: Himalayas have been placed under the ‘highest-risk danger zone’ by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as it unveiled a radically updated seismic zonation map, part of its Earthquake ...

India has unveiled a radically updated seismic zonation map as part of the revised Earthquake Design Code by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), placing the entire Himalayan arc in a newly ...

KOHIMA — A research initiative led by Nagaland University is creating a detailed inventory and risk assessment of high-altitude glacial lakes in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, aiming to prevent ...