By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Oct 1 (Reuters) - At least 15 Nepali workers were killed when an avalanche buried a mountain camp ...

Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, shut down for the season as large winter storms created a 'recipe of disaster.' ...

A private group working with the Indian government is concerned that the Himalayan water cycle supplying south Asia’s rivers will dry up, but not before delivering apocalyptic flash floods.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An American climber was rescued after she and another alpinist from the U.K. were stranded for two days at more than 20,000 feet ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal expansion and collision. In the latter case, high temperatures and pressures ...

The flash floods in Nepal were only the latest in an accelerating series of disasters that have battered the Himalayas in recent years ...

Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't sharply reduced, ...

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 ...

There is something deeply humbling about walking through the Himalayas. The mountains do not announce their wisdom; they ...

For millennia, the towering Himalayan mountains have posed immense challenges to human life, from thin air to extreme cold. Now, a sweeping new study, leveraging whole-genome sequences from diverse ...

High in the Western Himalayas, where villages cling to terraced slopes and livestock are the backbone of household survival, tribal communities have spent generations treating sick animals with ...

Analyses of detrital zircons from Antarctica show that its tectonics were dominated by Himalayan-style mountains ...