Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot these photographs of the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Indo-Gangetic plain. A team of researchers at the Stanford Doerr School ...

Nepal, Nov. 15 -- When Han Suyin, the Chinese-born Eurasian writer, arrived in Nepal in 1956 to attend King Mahendra's coronation, she was inspired to write the book 'The Mountain is Young', which ...

We may have the Himalayas to thank for everything from the rise of giant flightless birds in Madagascar; to the disappearance of plants from Antarctica; to the expansion of the great grasslands of ...

The Himalaya are among the youngest and highest mountains in the world, but the exact timing of their uplift and origins of their biodiversity are still in debate. Generally, there are two hypotheses ...

This image of a single crystal shows 30 million years of geological history of the Himalayas by tracing its thorium concentration and age. Matthew J. Kohn, CC BY-NC-ND These minerals are found in ...

In World War II, hundreds of U.S. planes crashed in the Himalayas. NPR's Scott Simon asks William Belcher, a forensic anthropologist, about a new museum that displays artifacts from the crashes.

Uttarkashi is located in the Himalayas and has an amazing history and wonderful culture. Its long past intertwines with Indian mythological legends making it an attraction to anyone interested in ...

MR. WHISTLER'S book treats of sport and travel in a remote part of the Himalayan districts of the Punjab, Kulu, Lahul, and Spiti, of which the last is geographically part of Tibet though politically a ...

The Himalayas have long been more than just a geographical boundary, they are a spiritual landscape where silence, height, and isolation create the perfect setting for reflection. In the context of ...