Standing at nearly 9,000 meters tall and growing more each day, the Himalayas are the world’s largest and also youngest mountain range. It notably includes Mount Everest, which staggers above sea ...

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot these photographs of the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Indo-Gangetic plain. A team of researchers at the Stanford Doerr School ...

The findings offer fresh insight into the powerful underground forces that continue to shape the Himalayas and the Tibetan ...

Towering 8,848 meters above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth — but how did it come to be? This video explains the collision of tectonic plates, the rise of the Himalayas, and the ...

Long before the Himalayas formed, the Earth had already shaped mountains that still survive today. Check here to learn about ...

Mount Everest and the Himalayas are famous for their towering peaks and massive proportions. But how did this gargantuan mountain range form? "Continental collisions are messy, with the ground ...

THE fourth part of the sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalayas is entirely the work of Mr. H. H. Hayden, and is devoted to a review of the present state of our knowledge of the Himalayas.

When she went to Nepal in 2019 to co-lead a geology team for the ambitious, multi-disciplinary National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, Mary Hubbard was going back to the ...