In the 1990s, a high Himalayan cave in Upper Mustang, Nepal was discovered to contain 42 ancient people, buried on wooden bunk beds. American archaeologist Dr. Mark Aldenderfer believes there must ...

Himalaya means "abode of snow" but the mountains are melting, bringing both drought and flooding to the people living there. As many as 20 to 30 per cent of the nine million springs flowing from the ...

For centuries the Himalaya have served as a geographical transition zone between different ecosystems and different ethnic groups of people situated between the lowlands of the Indo-Gangetic ...

Many millions of people now visit the Himalayan region in a typical year. Some four thousand climbers have attempted to summit Everest in each of the past two decades, a fifty-per-cent increase ...

Rapid warming and glacial melt About 240 million people live in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, many of their cultures dating back thousands of years, and another the 1.65 billion live downstream.

'The Himalaya -- Changing Landscapes' photo exhibition aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change and of the new challenges facing the mountain people.

Melting Himalayan glaciers pose serious dangers to humans, report finds 06:59. New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and ...

Rapid warming and glacial melt About 240 million people live in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, many of their cultures dating back thousands of years, and another the 1.65 billion live downstream.