Experts have been studying remote mountain communities and found they have certain genetic advantages which prove that ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

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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 ...

With the Tibetan mountains towering above, it was a surreal scene -- and it became all the more so when the school's political adviser, a Tibetan in his early thirties with silver teeth ...

The quake destroyed thousands of homes, temples and mosques and killed over 3,000 people in Tibet and more than 1,000 in Assam, India. In the hardest-hit areas, mountains shifted and landscapes ...

And roads to the mountains and other remote attractions ... the few inches of rain that Tibet sees is considered mild. If you want to avoid the heavy precipitation, visit in June.

The Himalayan mountain range was formed after the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided around 50 million years ago. How does their movement continue to impact the region?

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

Tibet's most sacred mountain. International campaigners for Tibet have voiced their growing concern about a planned ring road around Mount Kailash, Tibet's most sacred mountain. News about the ...

Tibet, meanwhile, is behaving like a giant roadblock ... Nepal will technically cease to exist. But the mountain range we know as the Himalaya will not go away. This is because the Himalaya ...