Research Himalaya

08/08/2025

https://youtu.be/G3t0xkRn49o?si=xy1pGdhP_4vFbrSy

MAW member Rick Silber, executive director of International Mountain Trekking, Inc. (“IMT”), describes IMT's June mushroom trek in the Khumbu (Everest) regio...

19/03/2025

The farmers are protecting Nepal's snow leopards.

In the Himalayas of Nepal, a simple solution is keeping both livestock and snow leopards safe.

13/01/2025

In the Himalayan mountains, it’s not just climbers who race their way to the top. Trees are locked in a contest, as well.

At high elevations, fir trees are outcompeting once-dominant birches amid warmer, drier conditions

10/12/2024

"Too much pressure from extreme rainfall, an avalanche, or a landslide into the lake can burst these dams, triggering a devastating flood. Officials say that’s likely what happened when the Himalayas’ Lhonak Lake flooded towns in India in October 2023."

Alaska has at least 120 glacier-dammed lakes, and almost all have drained at least once since 1985, a new study shows. Small ones have been producing larger floods in recent years.

28/07/2024

A new study finds that the endangered red panda population in the eastern Himalayas needs better protection by conserving its core habitat and securing corridors.

Certain landscape features, such as connectivity, play an important role in the genetic flow and diversity of a species which, in turn, strengthen the species’ success in reproduction and long-term survival. However, geographical barriers such as rivers and mountains, amplified by human-induced ha...

24/05/2024

A team of international scientists has found that ice loss in the region, home to the famous peaks of Everest and K2, is speeding up.

Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75% of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing both dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in the mountainous region, according to a new report.

15/03/2024

Climate change is posing a threat to more than 1.8 billion people living in the mountains and downstream.

Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region are melting, permafrost is thawing and water availability in river basins is becoming unpredictable, a landmark report confirms. This poses a threat to more than 1.8 billion people living in the mountains and downstream.

12/11/2023

The Himalayas are a dramatic example of how mountains on Earth are formed. About 40-50 million years ago, the Indian plate began to crash into the Eurasian plate, and the Himalayan mountains shot up.
https://sciencenorway.no/geology-mountains-volcanoes/why-cant-mountains-on-earth-get-much-higher-than-the-ones-that-are-here-now/2095509?fbclid=IwAR0PDo8peIK_ao1lmUrLz3Mer4ydY-f_f5RtWxZ5_tyxSHjR3MNSoVcxA4o

If you've ever wondered why there are no mountains higher than Mount Everest, you can find the answer here. But there are mountains of completely different sizes elsewhere in the solar system.

09/07/2023

A paper in Nature presents evidence for a giant rockslide that may have taken the peak off one of the Himalaya’s highest mountains during Medieval times. This abrupt, high-altitude erosion event may have reduced the height of the summit by several hundred meters. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/46yUY45

07/07/2023

"Scientists predict devastating consequences for water and food security, energy sources, ecosystems, and the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people across Asia, many of which will be beyond the limits of adaptation."

New international assessment finds emissions and climate policy falls short in the high mountain regions of Asia, threatening billions of people and species in the area.

23/03/2023

"As China and Nepal found, deciding exactly what you measure, and how you measure, is fundamental to establishing a mountain's height. For example, to agree upon how tall a mountain is, we must first agree on where the bottom is. But that's not as easy as it might sound."

Arching over 8,849 metres (29,032ft) into the sky, Everest is the world’s tallest mountain. But will it always be? 8,848.86