While commercial planes are not specifically banned from flying over the Himalayas, there's an unsettling reason why they generally avoid doing it.

Makalu Climbing Team Retreats Shy of Summit With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the ...

What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi (1866-1945) took to enter Tibet, tucked deep in the mountains and closed to foreigners, at a time when no decent map was available. Now ...

If you look at the flight paths of airplanes traveling around the world, you will notice several oddities. For example, they do not fly direct routes to their destination or avoid certain areas.

Toronto has seen all types of new buildings join the urban fabric in a dizzying decade and a half of booming construction, but one new proposal ...

A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least 32 people.

This is the segment that winds through Tibet's remote Nyainqentanglha Mountains, an area so rugged and inhospitable it was simply abandoned decades ago and the entire area closed to travelers.

China and India have agreed to facilitate the exchange of journalists, enhance cooperation on cross-border rivers, and plan ...

"The fragile environment of Mount Kailash, one of the most sacred mountains in the world, may be under threat from Chinese development plans to increase tourism to western Tibet. A 'ring road', which ...

Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many ... clash and cause uplifts in the Himalayan mountains strong enough to change the heights of some ...

China and India agreed to facilitate the exchange of journalists between the two countries, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.