Himalaya

Lessons from Bhutan’s pursuit of happiness

Bhutan blends breathtaking scenery, rich culture, and deep history, while offering something rarer: a chance to embrace the unfamiliar and see the world from a different perspective.

PUNAKHA DZONG, a magnificent fortress-monastery
A woman walks past destroyed buildings after flash floods and mudslides, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 29, 2026.

Devastating Nepal flood damage may cost up to a tenth of economy to rebuild

Damaged houses following a flash flood at Trishuli in Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 26, 2026.

Flash flood in Southeast Asia kills 162, hundreds of tourists missing, including one Israeli

The golden thrush (Zoothera aurea), spotted for the first time in Israel on October 30, 2025.

White's thrush spotted in Israel for the first time by local birdwatcher


'The Mountain Story': Bollywood actress opens romantic café in the Himalayas

"A childhood dream comes alive—my little café in the lap of the Himalayas. The Mountain Story—it's a love story," wrote Kangana Ranaut.

 'The Mountain Story': Bollywood actress opens romantic café in the Himalayas.

Over 50 killed in Indian Himalayas as rain triggers landslides

Television footage from India's Himachal Pradesh state showed houses flattened by landslides.

 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel and other volunteers climb up a mountain to reach the site of a landslide at a village in Raigad, in the western state of Maharashtra, India July 20, 2023

Climber denies stepping over dying guide to break mountain climb record

A video circulating on social media showed a line of climbers climbing over the body of a mountain guide as he hangs from a rope on the side of the mountain.

 K2, the world's second highest mountain after Everest.

What's Sukkot like in the Himalayas?

With Everest towering above the Himalayan landscape, Nepal boasts the highest point on Earth, while the Dead Sea in Israel is recognized as the lowes.

 A CHABAD member prays the Sukkot service in the Annapurna massif.

Himalayan glaciers melting at unprecedented rate, threaten region's water supply- study

A new study examining the ice loss of the Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age has shown that they are melting at an unprecedented rate in comparison to the previous seven centuries.

 Himalayan glacier and Nangpa La border pass to Nepal in the distance.

India and China agree to ease tension on border, New Delhi says

Both sides deployed additional forces along the frontier running through the western Himalayas after a clash in June.

A man walks inside a conference room used for meetings between military commanders of China and India, at the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla