Not only do the Himalayas include the world’s highest mountains, they are also home to species ranging from snow leopards to ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

High in the alpine meadows of Uttarakhand, in the western Himalaya, some of the world’s most valuable medicinal plants are ...

Arpan Das has been exploring a remote region of the Himalayas. As globalization brought the population of the world together, it began to feel like a smaller place. Once exotic destinations like Japan ...

Draped across the very top of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas are the stuff of trekking legend. Every hiker worth their boots has likely dreamed of tackling this range’s trails, which carve out ...