In preparation for the upcoming International Snow Leopard Day, we have created this list of facts to impress your friends.
New study reveals snow leopards have lowest genetic diversity among big cats, posing challenges for future conservation ...
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Ghosts of the Mountains: 4,000 snow leopards left in the wild
With as few as 4,000 snow leopards left in the wild, the survival of these elusive cats has become a high-stakes test of ...
Snow leopards are at a high risk of extinction in the wild. Poaching and habitat destruction threaten the felines, which are native to the mountain ranges of Central and Asia. But a new study, ...
The 11th Jomolhari Mountain Festival opened today, celebrating snow leopard conservation. Among the festivities, students ...
Himachal Pradesh, with 44 unique adults detected in six representative sites First official record of Pallas’s cat in Kinnaur and rediscovery of woolly flying ...
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Colorado Loses One 14,000'er and Gains Another After Scientific Assessment
Eric Gilbertson climbed Crestone Peak carrying loads of geological survey equipment to measure the summit's true elevation.
He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner ...
Animals that live at highest altitude have incredible survival adaptations. Discover which mountain animals hold the world ...
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American Mountaineer Makes History by Skiing Down Mount Everest’s Most Difficult Route
Jim Morrison, 50, completed the historic run on October 15 as a tribute to his late partner, Hilaree Nelson, who died in an ...
It’s that same impulse, to transform death, destruction and devastation into positive, tangible action, that underpins ...
After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...
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