The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

An Italian ultra-cyclist is to climb more than 50,000m over the course of a 3,000km ride through the Himalayas to raise ...

With the Tibetan mountains towering above, it was a surreal scene -- and it became all the more so when the school's political adviser, a Tibetan in his early thirties with silver teeth ...

was located in Tingri in China’s Tibet, about 50 miles north of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. It also shook buildings in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and India. Twenty-four hours ...

Tibet is part of China ... Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates clashed and caused uplifts in the Himalayan mountains strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s tallest peaks.

And roads to the mountains and other remote attractions ... the few inches of rain that Tibet sees is considered mild. If you want to avoid the heavy precipitation, visit in June.

The China Earthquake Networks Centre located the epicentre at Tingri county, known as the northern gateway to the Everest ...

Tibet's most sacred mountain. International campaigners for Tibet have voiced their growing concern about a planned ring road around Mount Kailash, Tibet's most sacred mountain. News about the ...

Toronto has seen all types of new buildings join the urban fabric in a dizzying decade and a half of booming construction, ...

where the India and Eurasia plates grind against each other and can cause earthquakes strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s tallest peaks in the Himalayan mountains. Tibet ...

Rescuers rushed to distribute blankets and tents to those displaced by the magnitude-7.1 quake that struck Tibetan villages near Nepal, toppling over 3,000 homes. By Tiffany May Rescuers working ...