The first international climbers reached the top of Everest on Sunday, but that sprinkling of summiters will have to suffice ...

If you're up for ditching the itinerary and getting a little off track (sometimes literally), here's a version of Manali that feels wilder, cooler, and way more personal.

Less crowded but equally majestic, Langtang is a soul-soothing trek through yak meadows and beneath cascading glaciers. With ...

Our Everest columnist shares some intel on how to avoid illness during the 11-day hike. Plus, a rest day adventure in the ...

Langtang was destroyed in the earthquake and 300 people there died. But others returned and rebuilt a tourist haven.

Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country settled between China and India, is regularly hailed as the extreme goal for t ...

A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks outside our airplane window, a stark reminder that we were entering a land of ...

A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks ... tourist hotspots (ranging from yak farms to peach blossom fields ...

With snow-capped peaks in the backdrop ... serves customers at his Dorje Bakery [Kate McMahon/Al Jazeera] The yak herders are dying out, and the next generation is more focused on gaining ...

I also protect my lungs from the dust on the trail, which can contain particulates from mule or yak dung ... just as it began to snow. The haircut took about a half hour, with the snow increasing ...