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

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

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

“Earth is made of rock ... The idea is that, unlike Everest or Aconcagua (the highest peak in the Andes), this superlative ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, climbed the world's eighth-highest mountain shortly after his high school exams A Nepalese teenager has broken the world record for the youngest mountaineer to summit Earth ...

It has the highest peak above sea level at 8,848 metres. Mount Everest is part of the Himalayan mountain range in Asia where many of the world’s tallest mountains are found. Earth’s surface is ...

The highest peak here is more than 7,500 feet tall ... We’ve seen little of these oases of life in the deep. Of all Earth’s seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred.

Before this, the highest temperature reliably recorded on Earth was 129.2F (54C ... It is expected to hit its peak on Monday and Tuesday, before temperatures start to drop later in the week.

India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system on Earth. As the mash-up continues, the mountains get higher. Mount Everest ...