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The Latest Breaking News from Himalayas

Dad told to go to doctor after friend noticed worrying sign on walk

Rob Stubbs was walking in the Himalayas when one of his friends first noticed the symptom

Liverpool Echo

India’s push for 24/7 clean energy from dams upends lives

A remote region amid gigantic peaks in the Himalayas is home to just 100,000 people but makes four nuclear power plants worth of energy

The Independent UK

Factbox-Deadly avalanches in Indian Himalayas

At least seven people died in an avalanche in India's northeastern state of Sikkim on Tuesday, according to the Indian army. It was one of many avalanches in the Indian Himalayas that have killed at least 120 people over the last two years.

Reuters

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Avalanche sweeps away tourists in northeast India; 7 killed

An avalanche has swept away a group of tourists in the Himalayas in northeastern India, killing at least seven and injuring 11

The Independent UK

Prince’s Golf Club: Shore & Himalayas Course Review, Tee Times and Key Info

Up to 73rd in our Top 100 UK&I Course Rankings in association with Peter Millar, the many exciting changes at Prince's over recent years have really paid dividends

Golf Monthly

Himalayas: The climate time bomb threatening India

In the world's highest mountain range, global warming threatens thousands of glaciers, resulting in increasingly frequent natural disasters: landslides, avalanches and glacier collapses. Our reporters Alban Alvarez and Navodita Kumari travelled to the small northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, where these disasters are compounded by a rush to develop infrastructure…

France 24

Friday essay: matrilineal societies exist around the world – it's time to look beyond the patriarchy

Thirty years ago, I travelled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China’s Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang’s old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways, arched stone bridges, and cobbled streets. Just north of the city – about five hours by road…

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Scarred for life: the Himalayan towns sinking into oblivion

The construction of vast dams and a network of roads and railways have taken a heavy toll on the state of Uttarakhand, with buildings in Joshimath and other settlements collapsing and residents blaming government indifference

The Guardian - UK

Take a look at the image people voted to award Wildlife Photographer of the Year

German photographer Sascha Fonseca set out bait-free camera traps three years ago to capture the ever-elusive snow leopard in the Indian Himalayas.

WEKU

Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America

Melting mountain glaciers pose a growing flood risk to some 15 million people around the world, researchers said in a report published on Tuesday, with communities in Asia facing the biggest danger.

Reuters

‘Will Catherine get to the Himalayas?’ 10 burning unanswered questions from Happy Valley

From the chances of a potential spin-off to the prospects of Ryan joining the force, here are the lingering questions from Sunday’s finale – and our answers

The Guardian - UK

India's sinking hill town, a casualty of the warming Himalayas

On the slopes of the Himalayas, nearly 2,000 metres above sea level, the hill town of Joshimath is sinking. Experts fear it's one of many settlements in the ecologically fragile region in danger of being wiped out because of subsidence worsened by large-scale construction and climate change.

Radio France Internationale

India expects more clashes with Chinese troops in Himalayas - document

A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region.

Reuters

Royal Enfield Teams With UNESCO To Document Himalayan Cultural Heritage

Royal Enfield recently partnered with UNESCO to help preserve parts of India's Intangible Cultural Heritage in communities across the Himalayas. You can help!

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Superfit dad's final post after he's found dead during Mount Everest climb

Kellinu Portelli set off from Britain for the 4,5000 mile trip to the Himalayas. He said "just one more sleep and I'm off on an adventure of a lifetime"

ABC News

Inside Nepal’s tourism industry and the risks travellers are willing to take

Regular visitors to Nepal are very familiar with the risks that come with travelling throughout the country, but it's unlikely to stop them from going back.

France 24

Indian passenger's video of Nepal plane crash emerges as relatives mourn dead

Search teams retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders Monday of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, officials said, as investigators looked for the cause of Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 years.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why did Nepal plane crash in fair weather?

Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed Sunday just before landing in Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara, the gateway to a popular hiking area in the Himalayas, after a 27-minute trip from Kathmandu

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Pilots likely 'lost control' in fatal Nepal plane crash with Australian on board, airline consultant says

The domestic Yeti Airlines plane went down during a 27-minute flight from Nepal's capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, a tourist town known as the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit, a popular hiking trail in the Himalayas.

Newslaundry

Joshimath’s story dates back decades. That’s why media must dig deep

A small town in Uttarakhand has made it to the front pages of newspapers, and as the top story in many television news shows. Joshimath, a town of a little under 17,000 people in Chamoli district, is already well-known to trekkers, those wanting to explore the Himalayas, and Hindu pilgrims.…

360info

The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them.

Reuters

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

Bangkok Post

Mountain women: unsung heroes

Whether they live on Mount Kilimanjaro, in the Himalayas, or the Andes, women and girls in mountain communities around the world have much in common: they are often the ones managing daily life in the mountains, as protectors of the land and biodiversity and keepers of traditional knowledge.

Dynamite News

This Village In J-K Has India's Biggest International Yoga Centre

The village, which is located on the Himalayas in the sal forests' lap, the village, which has a peripheral view of both the plains as well as hills, which will serve the International Yoga Centre at the banks of the Tawi river. Read more on Dynamite news:

Bangkok Post

Closer to heaven

Doi Luang Chiang Dao in Chiang Mai is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover lush sub-alpine woodland and limestone mountains that rise 2,225m above sea level. As part of Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, its topography is comparable to that of the Himalayas and south China.

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