The world's highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. Everest at...

The Nepal government decided to measure the exact height of the mountain amid debates that there might have been a change in its height due...

Part of the report, which was released yesterday, also said Mt Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in Tibet, has been getting warmer for the...

Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years with the glaciers around the world's highest peak shrinking "remarkably", according t...

This is contrary to reports by Europe's Sentinel-1A radar satellite that world's tallest peak may have shrank about 2.5 cm after the quake.

China's glaciers particularly those in Tibet have retreated by about 7,600sqkm - nearly 18 per cent - in the last 65 years and even the thi...

The defence minister said that the "gravity" of the border issue between China and India has come down as far as Arunachal Pradesh is conce...

Besides Nepal, China had earlier announced plans to extend its 1,956-km long Qinghai-Tibet railway network to Bhutan and India.

The rail line was expected to be completed by 2020. However, there was no word on the cost of the project.

The daily direct flight will leave Chengdu at 7:30 a.m. and arrive in Kathmandu at 10:10 a.m. (local time) via Lhasa and the Tibet Autonomo...

Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers, have been shrunk by 15 per cent in the past three decades and the ...

Mountaineers attempting to scale the world's highest peak Mount Everest from Tibet will now be able to make video calls with their mobile p...