KATHMANDU – Raging water disrupted life in Thame village—home to some of Nepal’s famed Sherpas—when a glacial lake in the ...

The DuPage County Board honored Lucy Westlake as part of a proclamation for Women’s History Month. The board commemorated the ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayas holds the world’s largest ice reserves outside the polar regions and extends 3,500 kilometers over Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the People’s Republic of China, India, ...

Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range. We look into its climbing history, spotlighting the pioneers who ...

A photographer, an airline pilot, a ship’s captain and others reveal where you’ll find the most spectacular, intriguing and ...

Shigatse is also the closest big city to the Mount Everest Base Camp ... plenty of wildlife and glaciers. This is also where the popular Nagchu Horse Racing Festival takes place in August.

Expeditions to the high Himalayas to retrieve rock samples and map visible faults ... and Asia was working to push the Himalayas skyward, Everest and other peaks were being carved by rivers and ...

I’m accustomed to moving across dangerous terrain, but down here printed maps are often useless ... We know that Mount Everest is Earth’s highest peak, but the potential for conquering ...

Raging water disrupted life in Thame village—home to some of Nepal’s famed Sherpas—when a glacial lake in the Everest region burst its banks ... Meltwater from glaciers provides fresh water for ...