Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

This mountain may not be as high or as famous as Everest, but it's a riskier endeavor requiring a higher level of skill and fitness to successfully summit.

Nepal is known as the country with the most mountains because almost its entire landscape rises into the Himalayas. The ...

Richard Bryant, a 76-year-old Ivins City retiree, summited Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, ...

Google Maps’ Street View is becoming less and less about photographing the road to grandma’s house and more about getting you off the road entirely. The tech giant’s latest project, unveiled today, ...

A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...

Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers, did something this month that left even other elite athletes gasping: He climbed all 72 summits in the contiguous United States that ...

The storm that came spinning out of the Bay of Bengal in the north of the Indian Ocean last weekend was already notable. It pounded the Himalayas — the tallest mountains in the world — and unleashed a ...