When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually crowded with giants. Nearly all of them are clustered in the Himalayas and ...

Marco Schwidergall, Tomasz Rodzynkiewicz of Poland, and Matej Prcin of Slovakia have made the first ascent of a 6,232m peak in the Ghujerab Mountains of the Karakoram, according to Polski Himalaizm ...

Aksai Chin, despite its harsh and inhospitable climate, has immense strategic value for India.

What looks like highways going through a metropolitan area are actually a series of glaciers carving their way through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas. This photograph was taken ...