The instrument was developed by a team at the Mount Washington Observatory, and spent a year on Mount Everest before being ...

New data identifies two key risk factors for high-altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of death on the mountain.

Two daughters of an Argentine mountaineer who died on an icy peak 40 years ago, have retrieved his backpack from the spot -- ...

Army veteran Hari Budha Magar, who lost his legs in Afghanistan, fought the Supreme Court to be allowed to climb Mount ...

Guillermo Vieiro was 44 when he died in 1985 while descending Argentina's Tupungato lava dome, one of the highest peaks in ...

A group of local adventurers recently climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro as part of a fundraising effort to support the ...

He has now set another world first after making it to the top of the 6961 metre Mount Aconcagua, in the Andes mountain range in the Mendoza region of Argentina on Saturday. Mr Budha Magar, who is ...

A historic mining town between Aspen and Vail, Colorado, holds the distinction of being the highest city in the ... later kept the city a funky little mountain town through much of the 20th ...

The fifth tallest peak, Mount Jefferson, is near Round Mountain in central Nevada's Nye County. Want to escape to the mountains without leaving civilization? Mount Charleston offers lodges and ...

Here's how to do it According to the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Road 418 is a gorgeous two-hour drive that meanders through the highest mountains in Arizona. Also known as the "Around the Peaks ...