Presenters Andrew Benfield and Richard Horsey in the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhutan. The yeti – a fantasy creature, the stuff of cartoons, right? That's exactly what my smart, sensible ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct collision and the Indian continent, because ...

Jamling Norgay The Sherpas are an ethnic group who live in the high mountain region of the eastern Himalaya ... gateway to the southern side of Mount Everest. Because their physical prowess ...

Two-thirds of the Himalayan glaciers — that constitute Mount Everest— will melt by the year 2100 if the rise in temperature continues at the same pace. Even if governments try to control the ...

Read More: What happens to your body in Mount Everest's 'Death Zone,' where 11 people have died in the past week But Everest isn't the only Himalayan peak on which climbers face the death zone.

Brave Royal Navy engineers have climbed some of the toughest mountain peaks in the Himalayas as they trek to Mount Everest. A ...

open image in gallery Bright yellow tents in Mount Everest Base Camp, Khumbu glacier and mountains, Sagarmatha national park, Nepal, Himalayas (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Nepal is often criticised ...

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were immortalized when they became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 But the Himalayas had gripped adventurers from around the ...