China has formally started the construction of a USD 167.8 billion dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, close to the ...

China on Saturday formally started the construction of a USD 167.8 billion dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced ...

In an unprecedented move, India held the water treaty in abeyance after blaming Pakistan for a deadly attack in April.

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was only 15 when communist troops – having won the Chinese civil war – marched into Tibet in 1950 to bring the remote Himalayan plateau under the control of ...

From sacred lakes to former kingdoms, these trails deliver all the Himalayan drama without the Everest circus.

It passes through the snow-packed peaks of Siguniang Mountain before it reaches the rolling grassland at the edge of the Himalayan plateau.

The Tibetan Plateau is the largest and highest plateau in the world. Lying between the Himalayan mountain range and the Taklamakan Desert, this vast elevated carpet of land comprises one of the most ...

ABSTRACT: The western Tibetan Plateau (WTP; west of 80˚E) represents a distinct geographical domain bounded by the Pamir Plateau, Karakoram Range, and Hindu Kush mountains. Characterized by perennial ...

How Everest, and not another nearby Himalayan peak, got to be the highest mountain in the world is probably “just luck,” Larson said. “There’s nothing specifically special about Everest.” ...

Hengduan Mountains and the Tibetan/Himalayan Plateau, China Though they are not technically the Himalaya, I’m lumping the Hengduan mountains of Sichuan and neighboring areas of the Tibetan ...

About 171 people remain unaccounted for since Sunday’s disaster in Uttarakhand state, most of them workers at the Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric project and at the smaller Rishiganga dam, which ...