Most visitors don’t consider the Himalaya a wildlife destination, but the world’s highest mountains hold a surprising amount of diversity. From snow leopards and grumpy Pallas’s cats to blood ...

A surge in “helicopter tourism” at Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, is adversely affecting the local community and wildlife, reports Mongabay contributor Shashwat Pant. Helicopters have ...

In the Himalayas, when the elevation surpasses 8,000 feet, it starts to get hard to breathe. As you continue to climb, the air gets even thinner and barely anything is seen growing or living that high ...