An Issaquah woman survived 72 hours stuck on a mountain in the Himalayas after disaster struck at more than 20,000 feet.

While commercial planes are not specifically banned from flying over the Himalayas, there's an unsettling reason why they generally avoid doing it.

Since the sediments were lightweight, instead of sinking along with the plate, they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct ...

Rhys Fitzgerald got to the top of one Himalayan mountain as a warm-up for the world's highest peak. Slovak mountaineer Ondrej Huserka fell while descending the Lantang Lirung mountain in Nepal.

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Climbing Season Climbing season in the Himalayas predominately takes place just twice per year when the Jetstream subsides above the Himala ...