GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A massive mudslide early Monday killed seven volunteers as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods in northern Pakistan, officials said, leaving three others injured. Rescuers recovered the bodies after the ...

My hiking boots send stones skittering down the hillside like a torrent of grey golf balls. Valleys in the Karakoram Mountains are choked with such debris. Explorers crossing this range on the Silk Route wrote of an abundance of nothing but rocks.

Daytime temperatures are 3–5°C above normal, while nighttime were 1–3.5°C above the 1981–2010 climatological average

Pakistan has issued no warnings or restrictions on mountaineering expeditions, an official said Sunday, despite a spate of climbers' deaths. Faizullah Faraq, a spokesman for the government of Gilgit-Baltistan, the northern region home to some of the world ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Rescue teams in northern Pakistan expanded their search Friday for at least a dozen tourists who went missing earlier this week after being swept away by flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains, officials said. At least 12 ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck northern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least one person and damaging dozens of mud-brick houses, authorities said. In a statement, the regional Gilgit-Baltistan government said the tremors ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — An army helicopter on a routine flight crashed on Monday in northern Pakistan, killing two pilots and three technicians on board, a government spokesman said. The helicopter apparently went down in the Gilgit-Baltistan region due ...