When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually crowded with giants. Nearly all of them are clustered in the Himalayas and ...

This mountain may not be as high or as famous as Everest, but it's a riskier endeavor requiring a higher level of skill and fitness to successfully summit.

Richard Bryant, a 76-year-old Ivins City retiree, summited Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, ...

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, ...

Poland's Andrzej Bargiel has become the first climber to ski down the world's highest mountain without supplemental oxygen, his team and expedition organizer said Thursday. Bargiel glided down Mount ...

A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...

Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers, did something this month that left even other elite athletes gasping: He climbed all 72 summits in the contiguous United States that ...

The storm that came spinning out of the Bay of Bengal in the north of the Indian Ocean last weekend was already notable. It pounded the Himalayas — the tallest mountains in the world — and unleashed a ...