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 ...

Part of a Swiss mountain's summit has collapsed, sending more than 3.5 million cubic feet (100,000 cubic meters) of rock crashing into the valley below. The incident was likely a result of thawing ...

“Bliss” became widely understood as the most generic of generic stock photos, in the same way the placeholder icon became universally understood to mean “missing image.” And I don’t think it’s a ...

Forest rangers successfully rescued an upstate New York hiker who survived a frigid night on a rugged Adirondack mountain peak trapped above a cliff, after she slipped and fell hundreds of feet down ...

Believers have come to Serbian mountain from as far away as Australia. BELGRADE Dec. 13, 2012— -- Like a scene from the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," hundreds of people are being ...

Mountains and peaks may sound similar, but they are not the same. A mountain is a large landform that rises above the surrounding land. It usually has steep sides and a significant height. A peak, on ...

CORTLAND, N.Y. — New technology is helping to make snow faster and extend the ski season here in Central New York. It comes after a few recent seasons with a slow start for area mountains. It's good ...

Golden Peak became one of many venues in Colorado making race training available to teams from across the country this weekend. It has been a good season for early season race training; Copper ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. — In May, Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (LI), participated in Mountain Peak 25-01, a brigade-level, large-scale combat operation training exercise ...