The scientific revelation comes from a seismic modeling study led by Professor Arwen Deuss, a geoscientist at Utrecht ...

On his first day back in office in January, President Donald Trump wiped away a decade of precedent by restoring "Mount ...

The best time to visit Mount Rainier National Park is from July to August at the height of the Pacific Northwest summer. Wildflowers such as purple lupines and red paintbrush color the landscape, and ...

At 6 million acres, Denali National Park and Preserve has options for every type of visitor. Whether you’re an avid backpacker looking to forge new trails or a relaxed traveler content to watch for ...

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, ...

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 new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

The climbers' bodies have been found and specialist searchers were working to recover them "in a challenging alpine environment," police said.

Kilian Jornet has spent his life roaming mountains. It is a passion that borders on obsession, and no human has more effectively mastered the various means by which to traverse them. Where to begin?

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 ...

One of the world's top endurance athletes just blazed through California on his bicycle, stopping only to hike up each of the state's 14,000-foot peaks, and setting an incredible High Sierra speed ...