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Cristian Donoso has spent the past three decades witnessing the melting of the world’s ice sheets. Following in the footsteps of historic expeditions, he replicates photographs taken by adventurers and scientists from the past to compare the current state of the planet’s glaciers. ‘Almost all of them are melting,’ he says

The hosts of "Yeti" said the stories of local people are more important than their purported Abominable Snowman hair.

DNA from a supposed Abominable Snowman actually came from a horse, but that doesn't mean stories of the Yeti passed on by local people aren't important.

Historian of mountaineering fascinated by Mount Everest and the stories of those who climbed it

The Annapurna Base Camp welcomed a significant number of domestic tourists during the Dashain holidays. Hotels here are presently fully occupied with domestic tourists.

The first European reports of the Abominable Snowman or yeti (as the sherpas called it) came from the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition led by Charles Howard-Bury. The climbing team set off to explore how it...

Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mt. Everest, in 1953, predicted a gimmicky over-commercialization of the peak before he died in 2008. He was dead right, unfortunately.

EXCLUSIVE: British explorer Andrew Benfield reveals how an expedition to the Himalayas convinced him the fabled monster could yet prove to be real. Even David Attenborough agrees its ‘very convincing.

We often think of global climate change as a relatively modern topic. In fact, scientific observations going back to the 1700s detail vegetation in distinct climatic zones across multiple continents. Vail’s Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,...

A cryptid is a creature whose existence has been suggested, but not accepted by the scientific community. The term was coined in 1983 by a man named John E. Wall. Hundreds of cryptids exist around the world with some of the most famous being the Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, and El Chupacabra. In order to study reliable accounts of unexplained creatures you often need to visit some of the most remote places on Earth, including the Amazon Rainforest, Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, sections of Canada, R...