When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually ...

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 ...

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

Julia Lyubova, 44, climbed all 29,032 feet of Mount Everest this past spring. The expert climber caught an altitude sickness ...

WATCH the moment a massive avalanche breaks free from the steep face of Annapurna I, one of the world’s highest and most ...

Tracee Metcalfe wouldn’t have considered herself a mountaineer at the beginning of it all. Growing up in the suburbs of L.A. and saddled with a crippling fear of heights, who could have predicted ...

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The climber’s body was found two days after his fall. A climber looking to ascend the tallest peak in the country has died. Alex Chiu fell while ascending the West Buttress climbing route on Mount ...

Officials in Nepal say an avalanche swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri on Monday and killed five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides. an Armed Police Force spokesperson says five other people ...