McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

The tale of how he came to be eclipsed by Giotto had been told before by Dante in his “Divine Comedy”, begun shortly after Cimabue’s death in 1302. Imagining a brief encounter with the painter in ...

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to "restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

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Mount Ibu, on the remote island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, sent a column of smoke up to four kilometers (2.5 miles) into the sky in an eruption Wednesday. Indonesian officials raised ...

The eruption of Mount Kilauea began on 23 December and has paused periodically since, but restarted on 16 January. This stream has now ended ...

Best of all, you can “go to hell” and visit the five so-called portals beyond purgatory yourself ... of 5 — the same rating as Mount St. Helens’ deadly 1980 eruption.

Late medieval Florence was riven by factional disputes based on support for, or opposition to, papal power. Dante Alighieri, briefly one of the city’s six governing officials, was of the latter party.

I’m reading Erich Auerbach’s well-known book Dante: Poet Of The Secular World. It’s a small book, and a dense one, but it is deeply rewarding preparation for the book I’ve started writing.