If we could put our planetary clock on fast forward, Earth’s surface would writhe with activity. Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

Not even the most remote places on the planet are free from the presence of technology, and advances allow us to know more ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

Mountains have long inspired awe, standing as enduring symbols of strength, divinity, and the raw, untamed power of nature.

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel ...

The mountains of India's Uttarakhand region are among the most spectacular on Earth. Here Cicerone Press, publishers of the ...

While the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report released this week shows that the Himalaya will face catastrophic meltdown during ...

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.

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, Open Issue (May 2020), pp. R1-R14 (14 pages) Mountains are facing growing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective ...

THE original edition of this work, which appeared in 1908, was intended to mark the centenary of the first expedition sent to the Himalaya by the Survey of India for geographical purposes, having for ...