For the sixth time in his life overall and at a fourth different level, Anchorage's Mario Chalmers is a champion. The 39-year-old Alaska basketball legend recently added to his already illustrious ...

Eric Shipton dreamed of climbing Ulugh Muztagh, a remote peak in Tibet. Years later, some legendary American climbers and ...

Ross James Wallette, a popular Kennewick photographer, videographer and climbing guide, died Aug. 18 in a fall near the peak ...

With a country this big, it’s no surprise you can find many beautiful mountainsin the United States. Some of the most beautiful cities in the US can attributetheir vanity to these towering rocks ...

Over the past few months, signs of unrest at the 11,070-foot (3,374-meter) volcano near Anchorage have gradually decreased, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, which added that no ground ...

Seismic stations more than 600 miles away picked up the rumbling as a mountainside collapsed upon South Sawyer Glacier and into the ocean at the head of Tracy Arm.

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

The growing risk of glacial floods In many mountain ranges, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023.

Nepal has waived climbing fees for 97 mountains, officials said on Wednesday, hoping to steer people to its lesser-known peaks and boost local economies.