Himalaya

Prince Harry has praised the “staggering determination” of a group of injured veterans attempting to conquer Mount Everest. The charity Walking with the Wounded launched the ambitious project this week to put five war-wounded men on the mountain’s ...  

Manali (Himachal Pradesh), Feb 14 (IANS) Indian and European engineers overseeing the progress of an ambitious project to dig a tunnel below the 3,978-metre Rohtang Pass in the Himalayas are bracing for a geological “adventure” - the torrential flow of the Seri river that could deluge the tunnel. The 8.8-km Rohtang tunnel, an [...]  

Britain’s Prince Harry is to support a group of injured servicemen as they attempt to climb Mount Everest. The 27-year-old royal — who has not yet revealed whether he will be able to join the trekkers on their mission — is backing the expedition in ...  

The leading western geologist of the Himalayas, Professor Augusto Gansser (1910- 2012) died last month. He was 101. The Swiss professor had a fascination with mountains and spent most of his life on it. He became the leading authority on the geology of the ...  

Britain's Prince Harry is to support a group of injured servicemen as they attempt to climb Mount Everest. The 27-year-old royal - who has not yet revealed whether he will be able to join the trekkers on their mission - is backing the expedition ...  

The 11-day trip is split between steep singletrack footpaths in the populated hills around Kathmandu and a second half spent riding the higher-altitude trekking trails between more remote towns in the Himalaya near Tibet....Riding north out of ...  

Student physician Amanda Atkins-Manceau, a Lakeway native and St. Michael’s Catholic Academy 2001 graduate, serves her medical rotation with the Himalayan Health Exchange this month. The exchange is a health-care service program established by Himalayan Spirit Expeditions Inc. to provide medical and dental care to the underserved people living in remote regions of the Indian Himalayas [...]  

In the 1950s, the Swiss glaciologist Fritz Müller and Austrian scientist Erwin Schneider conducted among the first extensive studies of the Everest region in Nepal taking photographs of the glaciers, mountains and valleys. Fifty years later mountain geographer Alton Byers revisited the exact sites of the original photographs to take more than 40 replicates, many of which illustrate the dramatic effects of climate change in the world's largest...  

Results 'really were a surprise', say climate profs New scientific analysis of satellite gravity measurements has shown that ice is melting from glaciers around the world much less quickly than had been thought. The new research is important as worldwide glacier melt is thought to be one of the main factors which could drive rising sea levels in future.…  

Himalayan glaciers are melting far more slowly than predicted, according to a new satellite study from the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains have ranged up to 50 billion tons a year, said the ...  

One World Trekking, a leader in Himalayan adventure travel since 1988, announces a return to Upper Dolpo in Nepal. This unique Nepal travel itinerary, http://oneworldtrekking.com/ trips/epic-himalayan-journey-series/ 114-dolpo-and-the-snow-leopard-trek ...  

U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.