Mountains that matter

The United Nations declares 2002 as the International Year of the Mountains

The invisible mountain

Mapping the subcontinent

In 2002, the Survey of India began a year-long programme which celebrated 200 years of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, a mammoth cross-country …

Is Mt Everest the tallest peak?

Scientists studying the evolution of the highest Himalayan peaks will soon announce the exact elevation of Mt Everest at present.

String of peaks

A mammoth ring of mountains could have once stretched from Spain to New Zealand

Missing every mountain

Weathering the change

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Internet at its peak

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Global warming causes extinction of species

Scientists warn a rise in temperature will reduce the habitable area in North America's mountains and cause a reduction in the number of mammal …

MESSY MOUNT

WIELDING THE BROOM

INDIA

Waste management

CLEANING EVEREST

Summit watch

A new mountaineering policy for Uttaranchal

Steep crisis

UNESCO asked to list Mount Everest as endangered

High talk

Unspeak has piled up mountains of words on sustainable development of the world's fragile peaks, and action courses seem to have been lost on the …

Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell

A brief clip from the movie Waterworks India profiling Chewang Norphell, a civil engineer who has found a unique way to combat the water …

Looking beyond the Himalaya

Saving Everest's ecology

Old as the mountains

Disappearing alpines

A cursory collection of platitudes

Dynamics of Mountain Geosystems Edited by R B Singh Publisher: Ashish Publishing House, Delhi Price: Rs 500

Uphill task completed

NATURE RESERVES OF THE HIMALAYA AND THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA Compiled by Michael J B Green Publisher: Oxford University Press, India (for …