Travel (Page 36)

Before COVID-19, Prague was visited every year by millions of tourists looking for cheap beer and spectacular architecture. In the 1950s, on the other hand, the capital of then-Czechoslovakia attracted a very different crowd of travelers: Leftist intellectuals from around the world looking to see what life was like under socialism. ManyContinue Reading

After more than a decade of dispute and controversy over the true height of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain has a new official elevation: 8,848.86 metres, or 86 centimeters taller than previously thought. The new measurement was jointly announced by Nepal and China, the two countries that abut its tallestContinue Reading