We take a look at the world’s greatest unclimbed mountains – remote, revered giants that remain out of our reach to this day ...

The highway is one of the highest paved roads in the world, passing through the Karakoram mountain range at an elevation of 4,714m above sea level. It is a popular tourist attraction and was ...

Vittorio Sella was a pioneering Italian photographer whose work at the turn of the 20th Century shaped both mountain photography and mountaineering history. His rare images of the Himalayas remain ...

All the 8,000-meter peaks reside in the Himalayan and Karakorum mountain ranges in Asia. Legendary Italian climber, Reinhold Messner, became the first person to scale all of these prestigious ...

Taking the Gaizi Village-Bulunkou Township Section (hereinafter referred to as “the Gaizi-Bulunkou Section”) of the Karakoram highway as ... debris flow hazard zonation map is mainly obtained from ...

Apple Maps is now displaying the highest mountain in North America with the name "Mount McKinley" again in some cases. The change is obviously not consistent: On other devices of the Mac & i ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme. Straddling the border of Pakistan and China in the Karakoram mountain ...

THE practical problems involved in the interpretation of geological and topographical maps are here dealt with in a manner likely to appeal to students of geology and civil engineering.

The second highest peak in the world at 8,611 meters belongs to the Karakoram Mountains and lies between Pakistan and China. However, it is considered more challenging to climb than Everest, and its ...