“Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously replied when asked in 1923 his motivation for challenging the world’s highest peak. Yet long before Mallory’s linguistic minimalism Everest was there, a ...

Want to run around the Himalayas as the legendary, fuzzy Yeti? You can in Google’s latest app, Verne: The Himalayas. Google’s Creative Labs is utilizing the vast collection of 3D imagery from Google ...

Google today released a new application designed to get kids to explore the world using maps and 3D imagery. The new app, which the company describes as “an experiment,” takes advantage of Google Maps ...

The world's highest and most spectacular mountains, the Himalaya of Nepal, India, and Bhutan, are built on the foundations of a much older mountain system, University of Arizona geoscientists have ...

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Scientists may have just toppled a 100-year-old theory about what holds up the highest mountain range on Earth, new research shows. The Himalayan mountains formed in the collision between the Asian ...

If you enjoy checking out the Himalayas and catching a glimpse of Mt. Everest on Google Street View, then you will be pleased to learn that Google is kicking things up a notch. It has launched a fun ...

THE original edition of this work, which appeared in 1908, was intended to mark the centenary of the first expedition sent to the Himalaya by the Survey of India for geographical purposes, having for ...