Dan Egan’s respect for the way mountains can turn cranky and ill-tempered, as they did this year with avalanche-prone conditions stretching across Utah and most of North America, runs deep. During his ...

Four hundred men—many of them miners—worked with sculptor Gutzon Borglum to chisel the faces of four U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore using a combination of dynamite, jackhammers, and fine carving ...