When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali ...

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali ...

When thinking of the world's highest county, more mountainous regions such as Switzerland and Nepal may be the obvious choice ...

K2, known as the 'savage mountain' in the Karakoram, is the world’s second-highest peak. It boasts a fatality rate of 13%, which is down dramatically in recent years (it previously hovered ...

The order, set to be published later in the day, will revert the name of North America's highest peak back to Mount McKinley. The mountain -- which rises more than 20,000 feet (6,000 meters ...

Earth's average land and ocean surface temperature in 2024 was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average—the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA's 1850–2024 climate record.

KARACHI: Pakistani mountaineer Asad Ali Memon has added another feather to his cap by summitting Mount Vinson, the highest peak ... most remote and coldest peaks on Earth. "From Karachi to ...