Red Bull athlete Will Gadd exudes adventure. He just completed a long-distance paraglide flight to Mt. Assiniboine, where he climbed solo.

Fried chicken is one of the most iconic dishes in the South. But as Rick Bragg explains, the love for this crispy, crunchy ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

A Matlock schoolboy is gearing up for trek to the summit of Africa’s tallest peaks this summer as he raises funds for a charity tackling racism and social discrimination.

Well spring is here — or is it? There is a saying, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes.” This is very true in the Adirondacks. Last week I hiked St. Regis Mountain in a short sleeved shirt, ...

Located in Tanzania, Africa’s tallest mountain sits on the Kenyan border in East Africa, some 200 miles south of the Equator.

Climbing Helvellyn is a hugely rewarding experience, whichever route you decide to take. As well as being one of the Lake ...

It’s work of the hardest and most dangerous kind to climb up among ... I spent every free minute hunting or fishing. I became ...

Independent climbers hoping to summit Nepal's 8,000m peaks without supplementary oxygen or Sherpa support can relax. They're ...

Prospective hikers to the Japanese tourist site will have to take a class about hiking safety and local rules.

Between 2000 and 2023, melting mountain glaciers have caused 18 millimeters of global sea level rise, about 1 mm per year. Every millimeter can expose up to 300,000 people to annual flooding ...

The first such neuroscientist was Giulio Tononi, an associate of Koch’s, who told me my consciousness was “so much greater” than the alpine mountain I lived under at the time, Washington’s ...