Pilgrims -- Origins -- The First Explorers -- Lost Kingdoms -- The Architects of Xanadu -- The Rise of Gorkha -- The High Road to Tibet -- Trade Wars -- The Hard Road to Sagauli -- Mapping the ...

Revisionists accounts of the Holy Roman and Austrian Empires. Alyson Hagy reviews Ron Hansen’s Billy the Kid: “Hansen has an abiding interest in the tension between a historical figure’s publicized ...

We drove higher and higher, the road corkscrewed tighter, and the air grew thinner. It was September of 2019 and I was travelling with my wife and two sons in the Indian province of Ladakh, deep in ...

The mountain range Himalaya, is the mother that cradles some of Asia's life-giving rivers. These rive not only provide breathtaking valleys but also sustain millions of lives across India, Tibet, ...

Scientists have found the first geological evidence of an earthquake at Himebasti Village on the border of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, documented by historians as Sadiya earthquake in history, which ...

Photo courtesy of Ben Clark. The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. When Ben Clark was in his twenties, he was one of the most ambitious ...

SEOUL—On Sunday, Kim Hong-bin made mountaineering history, becoming the first disabled person to scale the world’s 14 tallest mountains. Now, he is missing. An international search mission is under ...