There's a particular kind of stillness in the idea of a summit so high that the air itself can't sustain human life. The ...

Hundreds of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – infrastructure ...

Geosynclines in plate-tectonic settings : sediments in mountains / Kenneth J. Hsü -- Mountain building and volcanism / James B. Gill -- Granite type and tectonic environment / Wallace Spencer Pitcher ...

The highest mountains on Earth are often spoken about as measurements first. Heights, rankings, expedition records. Yet the mountains themselves exist in conditions that resist neat comparison. The ...