For Nepal, as well as the broader mountain ranges such as the Himalaya, the Andes, the Alps, the Atlas and the Ural Mountains, this opening helps not only to highlight vulnerabilities, but also to ...

A welcome shift, certainly. But the old narrative lingers — mountains are fragile, disaster-prone, eternally vulnerable. But the uncomfortable truth is that safe and environment-friendly development ...

Roy’s beautiful artwork in the book depicts her home, the garden, and the places and people and animals and flowers she so ...

Nepal’s rich insect biodiversity remains largely undocumented. Effective conservation and sustainable management require ...

This memoir is a beautifully crafted ode to the Himalaya as well as a cry from the heart about its continuing destruction ...

SANDEE, a flagship network of ICIMOD, has over the past 25 years nurtured generations of researchers and policymakers across 10 South Asian and HKH countries. The event, titled “SANDEE at 25,” both ...

If I had to choose between an unclimbed 6,000m peak or beating Ueli Steck's record on the Eiger by just 30 seconds, I'd ...

A regional conference on sustainable and resilient mountain settlements in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) began yesterday in ...

Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes. The site’s high ...

In the magnificence of the Himalaya theater, Mount Everest is mostly the headline. It is the giant that draws in the crowds, ...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has honoured three exceptional leaders and their ...

A mountain map of the snowy Himalayas recently went viral on social media, Yangtse Evening Post reported. Dubbed the "the greatest ever map of Himalaya", the picture has received more than 20 million ...