Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Himalayas

1962's Sino-Indian border war lasted four weeks – internment of India's Chinese community lasted years

As the Cuban missile crisis gripped the world’s attention 60 years ago, a less remembered conflict broke out high in the mountain passes of the Himalayas. Tensions had been mounting for months on the border between India and China and on October 20 the Chinese People’s Liberation Army attacked Indian…

The Conversation

Uttarakhand: Portals Of Kedarnath Dham Shut For Winter Season Today

It is believed that after the portals are shut, Lord Kedarnath becomes austere for six months of winter in the Himalayas for the welfare of the world. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

The school my parents kept me from – Vikram Kushwah’s best photograph

‘When I started using crude words, my parents sold their inheritance, took out massive loans and lived in a shack with an outside toilet – to send me to an elite school in the Himalayas. These boys are at the school I would otherwise have attended

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rangers legend Willie Henderson backs Nepal trekkers raising funds for charity set up in memory of his late daughter

Group of 14 volunteers will scale to an altitude of 4500m in the Himalayas in aid of the Michelle Henderson Cervical Cancer Trust.

Daily Record

Death toll in Indian Himalayas avalanche rises to 26

New Delhi (AFP) - At least 26 people have been confirmed dead after an avalanche struck climbers in the Indian Himalayas, officials said Friday, with bad weather hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts.

AFP

Avalanche in the Indian Himalayas kills dozens of climbers

At least 26 people have been confirmed dead after an avalanche struck climbers in the Indian Himalayas, officials said Friday, with bad weather hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts.

France 24

Death toll in Indian Himalayas avalanche rises to 19

New Delhi (AFP) - At least 19 people are confirmed dead after an avalanche struck climbers in the Indian Himalayas, authorities said Friday, with bad weather hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts.

AFP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Death toll in avalanche in Indian Himalayas rises to 16 - statement

Rescuers in northern India recovered 12 bodies of trainee mountaineers on Thursday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 from an avalanche in the Himalayas, the state-run Nehru Institute of Mountaineering said.

Reuters

Avalanche in Indian Himalayas kills at least four with dozens missing

Indian air force searches for remainder of group consisting of 34 mountaineering trainees and seven instructors

The Guardian - AU

Uttarakhand: Multiple deaths and dozens missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas

Local reports suggest at least ten people have died in the avalanche

Evening Standard

Self-portrait: Life of Brian, 96

Cricket physicist who climbed with Ed and is Damien's dad

Newsroom.co.nz

Body of missing US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson found in Nepal

Kathmandu (AFP) - The body of top US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was retrieved from the Himalayas by a search team on Wednesday, two days after she disappeared on the slopes of Nepal's Manaslu peak.

AFP

Mum-of-two plunges off huge 27,000ft mountain in Himalayas after skidding off

Manaslu in Nepal is the world’s eighth highest mountain and the search for the mother of two from Telluride, Colorado, has been very tricky due to poor weather conditions

Daily Mirror

Nepal avalanche: Disaster on eighth highest mountain in world 'kills 2 with 12 injured'

The avalanche is believed to have happened around 11.30am on Monday on Mount Manaslu, in the Nepalese Himalayas in the west-central part of Nepal in south Asia

Daily Mirror

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from western Himalayan area

Indian and Chinese troops have begun disengaging from the Gogra-Hotsprings border area in the western Himalayas, both sides said, two years after clashes at the frontier strained diplomatic ties.

The Guardian - UK

High by Erika Fatland review – a tour of the Himalayas, without the cliches

An anthropologist establishes a unique rapport with the people she encounters on this unromantic trek through the mountains

Daily Mirror

Brit plunges 100ft off mountain after he's charged at by angry mule on hike

Syed Bukhari suffered three separate head wounds that required a total of eight stitches after rescuers found his body following a 100 feet fall in the Himalayan mountains

ABC News

Body of Indian soldier Chandrashekhar Harbola found 38 years after avalanche on Siachen Glacier

Chandrashekhar Harbola went missing in the 1980s on the Siachen Glacier, in the eastern Karakoram mountain range of the Himalayas.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Nottingham Post

Second MasterChef star appointed to new Nottingham fine dining restaurant

He has come a long way since picking apples in the Himalayas

Tribune News Service

China seizes on Pelosi visit to set ‘new normal’ for Taiwan

From the South China Sea to the Himalayas, Beijing has shown a willingness to seize on perceived missteps by its rivals to tighten its grip over disputed territory. That’s now playing out around Taiwan.

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted every decision made for me’: a package holiday to Corfu

Trek the Himalayas if you feel like it, but sometimes all you really want is for someone else to do the cooking, says Eva Wiseman

The Hindu

Amarnath tragedy: Four more dead identified as Rajasthan residents

At least 16 people have died in the flash floods triggered by a cloudburst near the cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas last Friday

The Hindu

Have you tried a biking holiday yet? Don’t worry, you can also ride pillion

From the Alps to the Himalayas and the ghats of Tamil Nadu, biking holidays are on the rise as travellers discover the joys of pairing adrenaline with sightseeing

The Hindu

Shyni to lead freedom ride to the Himalayas

Creating awareness about violence against women is her prime objective

AFP

All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash

Pokhara (Nepal) (AFP) - Nepali rescuers have retrieved all 22 bodies from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said Tuesday.

1 … 4 5 6 7

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.