The findings of a new paper show governance and preparedness rather than hazard magnitude determine whether avalanches become mass-casualty events. With large ice-rock avalanches growing in frequency ...

The National Green Tribunal has sought a response from the Centre and others regarding the danger hanging glaciers pose in the mountain slopes of central Himalaya. The green body was hearing a matter ...

The study compares two recent events: the 2021 Chamoli disaster in the Indian Himalayas, which killed more than 200 people, and the 2025 ice and rock avalanche in Blatten, Switzerland, which buried ...

Global weather models significantly underestimate Himalayan snowfall, a new study found. This underestimation is particularly ...

Dehradun: Some of the heaviest snowfall zones in the Himalayas may be receiving far more snow than widely used global weather ...

The team had already endured ten days of severe blizzards. A 19-member mountaineering team faced a terrifying near death experience in the remote Himalayan terrain of Bageshwar district during an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stock photo of the summit of Mount Makalu in Nepal Shelley Johannesen, 53, was killed on Monday, May 11, as she descended from ...