Calculated Political Tension at China-India Mountain Border

's advice after the fight between Sherpas and Western climbers. Elite climber Conrad Anker has been climbing in the Himalaya for 25 years. Photograph by Cory Richards, National Geographic Conrad Anker for National Geographic For those climbing Mount ...

Mountaineer Kim Chang-ho has become the first Korean and only the 17th person in the world to climb all 14 peaks of the Himalayas over 8,000 m without oxygen tanks. Kim (44)'s team of climbers, which also included Koreans Seo Sung-ho (33) and Seok ...

Two mountaineers are safely back in New Zealand after a 36 hour rescue mission on one of the highest peaks of the Himalayas. Two weeks ago Scott Scheele fell nearly 100m down the face of the peak called Anidesha Chuli or the White Wave, sparking a ...

A Queenstown climber and the injured companion he rescued after a terrifying fall on a Himalayan mountain are hoping to head home this week. Ben Dare, 29, has been hailed as a hero after he lowered his injured climbing companion Scott Scheele, 24, ...

Because more than 80 per cent of the total land area is occupied by hills, mountains and Himalayas, Nepal is said to be a mountainous country. A very small portion of its land is occupied by the plain landscape, the Terai Region, located in the ...

Unique Himalayan expedition pushing the boundaries of technology and human endeavour KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Two mountaineers, Horacio Galanti and Horacio Cunietti, on an environmental expedition to the Himalayas have made ...

A Kiwi climber who saved his teammate on the third-highest mountain peak in the world has been dubbed a hero. The team of four mountaineers planned to tackle Anidesha Chuli, called the "White Wave", in one of the most remote regions of the ...

Every year, streams of people trickle their way up the mighty Himalayas. Some go there for some soul searching, others to search for rare birds. Some go there on a pilgrimage, others to worship nature. But they all share a bond — a bond with ...

India is alleging a Chinese border incursion in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, putting diplomatic pressure on an otherwise warming relationship between the two Asian giants. Chinese and Indian troops are camping 900 feet apart from each other six ...