An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this oblique photograph of Mount Everest, Earth’s tallest mountain (when measured from sea level). Standing on the border of China and Nepal, ...

Mount Everest has captivated the world with recent stunning views from both space and the Indian plains. Astronaut Don Pettit shared a striking ISS photograph of the Himalayas, while a rare video from ...

Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic plates constantly moving. The height is changing because the Indian tectonic plate is pushing below the Eurasian ...

Clear skies, calm winds and a panoramic view of Himalayan peaks draped in snow - that is the autumn hikers on Mount Everest have come to love. But that seems to be changing. The monsoon now stretches ...

When Kritika Pant and I were travelling to Sikkim earlier in the year, we visited Dzongu, a region dominated by the Lepcha ...