Police officers take a rest during a patrol in the Laohugou region of Menyuan Hui Autonomous County in Haibei Tibetan ...

BEIJING >> American mountaineer Anna Gutu and a Nepalese guide Mingmar Sherpa were confirmed Sunday dead after avalanches struck the slopes of a Tibetan mountain, while two others remained missing, ...

BEIJING — An avalanche hit Tibet’s Mount Shishapangma Saturday afternoon at 7,600 meters and 8,000 meters in altitude, state-owned Xinhua News Agency said, according to The Associated Press.

Yangzom Brauen's new family memoir Across Many Mountains tells the harrowing yet ultimately inspirational story of her grandmother and mother's life in Tibet and their subsequent escape and exile ...

BEIJING (AP) — American mountaineer Anna Gutu and a Nepalese guide Mingmar Sherpa were confirmed Sunday dead after avalanches struck the slopes of a Tibetan mountain, while two others remained missing ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell Subscribe for ads-free reading In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the ...

As the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates slowly collide, the Himalayan mountains continue to rise. However a new study suggests the Indian plate may be peeling apart, causing a slab tear. Scientists ...