A glacier and rock collapse in Nepal killed nearly 1,400 people and left thousands missing. Scientists say decades of warming ...

Part of a record-breaking mountaineering family, Phurba says reaching a peak 'makes me happy' and now enjoys sharing that joy ...

Nepal is preparing regulations to ban inexperienced climbers from attempting to summit Mount Everest at extreme altitudes.

The massive earthquake, pegged at a magnitude of 6.8 by the Chinese authorities, struck Dingri county in Xizang on Tuesday, ...

Moreover, a team of British engineers at Strathclyde University has started an appeal for funds to help rebuild schools — and ...

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake on Jan Mayen triggered a rock avalanche, highlighting how thawing permafrost and climate change ...

Expanding its life-saving humanitarian projects worldwide, satellite operator SES is racing to beam high-speed Wi-Fi ...

In the aftermath of Nepal’s devastating floods and landslides, rescue workers have been forced to venture into places where ...

Sail roughly 200 miles southwest of Guam and the seafloor drops away into a crescent-shaped scar so deep that Mount Everest ...

The scenes of devastation in Nepal are hard to comprehend, even for University of Arizona scientist Greg Leonard, who ...

Nepal’s floods, earthquakes and political crises have shaped a fatalist national story. What happens when catastrophe ...

Every year, hundreds of climbers flock to the Himalayas to take on Mount Everest. But a new study has warned that climbers ...