The snowpack this winter is smaller than average in California's Sierra Nevada as well as the Rocky Mountains. The lack of snow reflects record warmth.

Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

Imagine a world where mountains grow so high, they poke through the upper atmosphere and create a rocky maze for pilots to navigate. Maybe that world exists somewhere in the far reaches of the ...

A dead supercontinent may be to blame. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth, like so many of its human inhabitants, may have ...

Mt. Fluchthorn's tallest peak, on the Swiss-Austrian border, collapsed in June. Experts say peaks in the European Alps and Southern Alps of New Zealand are at risk of collapse, too. The damage and ...

Only 44 people have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, according to the people who chronicle such things.Only 44 people have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s ...