No one has ever climbed this mountain. At least - there are no records of a single person ever making it to the top. Yet it's a peak known across vast swathes of the earth's population - and it ...

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

The avalanche covered a highway that connects the town of Pai in Mainling county and Medog county in Tibet, a remote and mainly Buddhist autonomous region of western China. The mountain has an ...

If you look at the flight paths of planes traveling around the world, you may notice a few oddities. One is that they don't ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

What makes Mount Everest so special? Learn about the formation and fate of the world’s tallest mountain.

Photo from S-C Shi via Ma, Shi, Shen, Chang and Jiang (2024) Way up in the mountains of Tibet, a “slender” creature scaled the wall of a darkened building. Its “large” mosaic-like eyes ...