“Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously replied when asked in 1923 his motivation for challenging the world’s highest peak. Yet long before Mallory’s linguistic minimalism Everest was there, a ...

A mountain map of the snowy Himalayas recently went viral on social media, Yangtse Evening Post reported. Dubbed the "the greatest ever map of Himalaya", the picture has received more than 20 million ...

Want to run around the Himalayas as the legendary, fuzzy Yeti? You can in Google’s latest app, Verne: The Himalayas. Google’s Creative Labs is utilizing the vast collection of 3D imagery from Google ...

Google today released a new application designed to get kids to explore the world using maps and 3D imagery. The new app, which the company describes as “an experiment,” takes advantage of Google Maps ...

Violence marked most of the world’s trouble spots last week: bloodletting in Algeria, upheaval in Argentina, a shadow war in South Viet Nam, a coup d’état in Syria. Almost unnoticed was an event of ...