Nepal doesn't just keep its own time—it keeps it 15 minutes off from its giant neighbor. The New York Times reports that ...

Acer oblongum Himalayan Maple is a rather odd maple tree – one that fails to have nearly every aspect usually associated with maples. It is not deciduous – its leaves […] ...

Up and down lost meaning. I could not tell if I was tumbling forward or backward. Instinct took over. I slammed my ice axe into the slope and threw my weight onto it. For a split second it caught.

Next year, Pine plans to scale the summit more than 29,000 feet above sea level. A seasoned climber, he's ticked off five of the world's so-called Seven Summits—the highest peak ...

A man whose legacy is in the historic buildings and the hearts of people in Cripple Creek, Gary Ledford died May 9 at the age of 79. Ledford enhanced tourism in Cripple Creek when he and his wife Wini ...

KATHMANDU- As Nepal’s high mountains, including Mount Everest, have been struggling with decades of waste accumulation, the Nepal government has introduced a five-year plan to keep the mountains clean ...

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...

In Nepal, a nation wedged between India and China, a unique time zone is just one expression of a singular national identity.

A new levy on digital transfers suspected of hiding unregistered business extends the cash-strapped government’s long habit ...

She commenced her final summit push on 25 May, moving upwards from Camp-2, which is situated at an altitude of 6,400 metres, to spend the night at Camp-3 at an elevation of 7,200 metres ...

On April 29, the shocking news broke that RightsCon 2026, one of the world’s largest human rights-related convenings, would ...