Something vast is lurking beneath our feet—so immense and anomalous that scientists are rethinking what qualifies as the ...

Mount Everest stands at 29,032 feet and is still growing. A river merger from 89,000 years ago is partly responsible for Everest’s continued height increase. The mountain gains up to 2 millimeters per ...

Columbia Crest, the large glacier that caps Mount Rainier, has dropped about 20 feet, exposing rock that is now, technically, the highest point of the mountain.

If you were totally ignorant of England’s geography and new to its national parks, you’d probably first head for the Peak District in search of its tallest mountains. You’d find relatively nice hills ...

A woman has become the first from America to reach the summit of all 14 of the world’s tallest mountains. Tracee Metcalfe, 50, from Vail, Colorado, completed the feat on Friday by climbing 26,335ft / ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British mountaineer who set the record as the youngest female to climb all the 14 tallest mountains in the world said Thursday that inexperienced climbers should not be ...

Two experienced hikers were rescued from the tallest mountain in the Northeast after a whiteout snowstorm stranded them at about 5,000 feet on Sunday, authorities said. Kathyrn McKee, 51, of ...

With the prospect of Denali being renamed Mount McKinley, allow me to offer some historical perspective that supports a return to McKinley as the name. As I looked skyward from my office deck on that ...

Google Maps’ Street View is becoming less and less about photographing the road to grandma’s house and more about getting you off the road entirely. The tech giant’s latest project, unveiled today, ...