Journalist and broadcaster Ed Douglas, author of the first major history of the Himalaya has been visiting these remote communities for 30 years. Now they are opening up to him about the ...

Tibet, meanwhile, is behaving like a giant roadblock that prevents the Himalaya from moving northward. Under the peaks and under most of Tibet the Indian plate is apparently gliding along almost ...

Because of its youthfulness, the Himalaya has not yet evolved plant and animal life uniquely adapted to its terrain; flora and fauna are instead an amalgam of forms native to India, Southeast Asia ...

The legendary climber will attempt a new route on Nanga Parbat in June, then come December-January, do 'real winter firsts' ...

Tenzin Tsepak, Instructor of Tibet and Himalayan Studies at the Center for Asian Studies, conducts research on Tibetan history, literature, and culture, with a special interest in Indic poetics in ...

Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes. The site’s high ...