Teams hurried today to the summits of Dhaulagiri and Cho Oyu to seize the last hours of a remarkable weather window that is closing as we write these lines.

An aerial drone photo taken on Aug 7, 2025 shows a view of the Markog River forest in Padma county, Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Northwest China's Qinghai province. [Photo/Xinhua] XINING -- ...

On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam—India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.

A study is defying a 100-year-old belief about what keeps the world's highest mountain range aloft. The Himalayas have been standing tall in Asia ever since they were formed 50 million years ago. As ...