The Latest Breaking News from Himalayas

Across India, torrential rains over the past few months have swallowed an entire village in the Himalayas, flooded Punjab’s farmlands and brought Kolkata to a standstill. This all happened in a monsoon season in which total rainfall was technically only 8% above normal.

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades.

On August 5, a cloudburst near the Kheer Ganga river triggered a flash flood that tore through Dharali, a village in the Indian Himalayas. Within minutes, the river swelled with water, mud and debris, sweeping away homes, roads and lives.

Disasters in the Himalayas rarely give warnings, only images. The first ones from Dharali arrived on my screen on August 5 – a massive flood smothering a hillside. As a reporter, I knew I had to reach the spot. But Dharali was more than 500 kilometres away, and the last…

This year, the onset of monsoon in India was under unusual circumstances. The country saw its highest ever rainfall in the month of May. The official onset of monsoon was declared over the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand around June 20 and monsoon covered the entire country by…

Ross and Hugo Turner plan to climb Mera Peak for a scientific and historical investigation into how mountaineering has changed over the past 100 years

Klára Kolouchová, the first Czech woman to climb Earth's three highest peaks, has died in an accident on Nanga Parbat

Climate change is quietly reshaping where people can live and work

Royal Enfield recently took its upcoming twin-cylinder Himalayan and all-electric Him-E motorcycles to the Himalayas for final testing. And the pictures show motorcycles worthy of the nameplate.