Rik de Louche, 39, and Olivia Shanks, 38, are tackling the Great Himalaya Trail, which organisers say has been completed by fewer than 500 people. They started at the beginning of October and hope to ...

The teams targeting winter climbs on Mt. Everest, Annapurna, and Manaslu are prepared and ready to launch on the winter ...

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Japanese mountaineers Fumitaka Ichimura, Yusuke Sato and Kazuki Amano have received the 3rd Piolet d'or Asia for their new route up the N Face of Kalanka (Garhwal, India, Himalaya). They had set off ...

The Himalaya and adjacent regions (Pan-Himalaya) form a natural phytogeographical unit, from the Vakhan Corridor eastwards to the Hengduan Mountains via the Karakorum and the Himalaya. This region ...