The region is expected to suffer the most significant impacts of changing water availability this century. Yet tight-fisted governments are quibbling at COP28 over climate financing.

Automated software was used to track surface features on glaciers in 11 areas of High Mountain Asia, from Pamir and Hindu Kush in the West, to Nyainqêntanglha and inner Tibet and China in the East.

"These would have been important urban hubs in central Asia, especially as you moved out of lowland oases and into more ...

The second edition of the Piolet d'Or Asia now has its winners: the Koreans Sim Kwang Sik, Kang Yongsun and Joo MinSu won the Asian "Golden Ice axe" for their first ascent of the Garmush West Face, ...

They are higher and usually steeper than a hill and are generally over 600 metres high ... of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range.

"When you aim high, expect high," Tsang ... became the oldest American to climb the mountain, while 46-year old Zhang Hong of China became the first blind man from Asia to complete the feat ...