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Himalayas

The Himalayas — where legends say the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, roams.

In DNA testing, ‘Yeti’ samples come up bears, bears, bears

Science

Scientists recently revealed that nine rumored Yeti samples from the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau region were — not quite.

A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.

Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.

Science
World-renowned mountain trail runner Mira Rai on a training run outside Hong Kong.

How ‘adventurer of the year’ Mira Rai went from child soldier to ultrarunner

Conflict
A man with a child walks in front of the Gankar Punsun glacier at Dochula in Bhutan.

Himalayan glaciers are granted ‘rights of human beings’ for protection

Environment
A woman carries her belongings as she walks over a collapsed house in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on April 27, 2015.

Nepal’s quake preparations not enough, despite 20 years of warnings

Science
The architecture at the University of Texas at El Paso owes a lot to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. It all dates back to a National Geographic article in 1914.

Tourists spend thousands of dollars to schlep to Bhutan when they can just go to El Paso

Culture

The University of Texas at El Paso is close to the Mexico border, but the buildings look like they belong in Bhutan

Mt. Everest, the world's highest mountain, is seen from the viewing point at Lukla in northern Nepal.

Mount Everest has a problem — with poop

Environment

The Nepal Mountaineering Association says human waste is a bigger problem than trash on Mt. Everest. But the climbers aren’t going away, so we asked an Everest expedition leader how he plans to safely heed the call of nature atop the world’s tallest mountain.