Alpine skier Arif Khan was the only Indian to compete at the 2022 Beijing Games. Only two Indian women — Shailaja Kumar and ...

On International Mountain Day, the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) in Darjeeling turned the spotlight on the unsung ...

Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

The International Mountain Day (IMD) is being celebrated today with a variety of programmes across the world and in Nepal too ...

Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli, a pioneering Indian mountaineer, passed away on June 23 at the age of 93. Celebrated for leading India’s first successful Everest expedition in 1965, Captain M.S. Kohli's ...

Indian paramilitary soldiers on Sunday reached the bodies of seven of eight members of an international climbing team who'd vanished on the country’s second-highest mountain, officials said. Members ...

All eight of the climbers are presumed dead after disappearing May 26 on Nanda Devi East, a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain. Three attempts were made Wednesday to retrieve the bodies, but ...

Ten years ago this month, several dozen expeditions clustered in a sprawling tent city at base camp on Mount Everest, each hoping to get its own members to the 29,035-foot summit. They included at ...

BENGALURU, India -- Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't ...