How were the Himalayan mountains shaped? Surprisingly, long before the collision between what is now India and Central Asia.

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 in the Himalayan mountains. Michelle Dvorak, 31, and Fay Manners, 37, ...

The Himalayas Mountain Range stretches across South and Central Asia, forming the highest and most extensive mountain system ...

Violence marked most of the world’s trouble spots last week: bloodletting in Algeria, upheaval in Argentina, a shadow war in South Viet Nam, a coup d’état in Syria. Almost unnoticed was an event of ...

Scientists have found that, despite a vast difference in precipitation between the north and south sides of the Himalaya Mountains, rates of erosion are indistinguishable across these mountains. Santa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olympic and World Champion biathlete Laura Dahlmeier shows off her medals. The top German athlete won a total of seven world ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

The Indian Himalaya Mountains are in the spotlight of tourism safety after seven tourists mountain climbing went missing last week. The missing visitors include two Americans, four Britons, and an ...

For the first time in the history of the world, billions of people have stopped what they were doing and are hiding indoors, fearful that an invisible enemy might get them. And as tragic as all this ...

Residents in the northern Indian state of Punjab say they're seeing the Himalayas for the first time in decades while on coronavirus lockdown. Since India was put on lockdown in March to help prevent ...

India has deployed its Russian-made T-90 tanks against Chinese forces in the disputed border region of Ladakh. But moving 45-ton tanks in a mountainous region with poor roads and bridges comes with ...