Some of the wildest country in the U.S. is in Washington state's Cascade Range, reached by old logging and jeep roads that give way to high alpine trails. NPR's Brian Mann sends an audio postcard.

As our latest bout of chilly weather moves eastward we have a pattern setting up for Sunday that may produce up to hurricane force wind for some of our northern Front Range mountains and foothills.

You may not know it, but the extraordinary Saluda Mountains straddle the Carolinas with several notable summits as high as 3,258 feet. As part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian ...

A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was ...

Steamboat Geyser eruption seen through the trees in Yellowstone National Park on September 17, 2018. (Photo by Jacob W. Frank/ National Park Service) The Yellowstone region today is wonderland. It is ...

The crowds that flock to Lake Bled like parched game to an African watering hole don’t bother Simon Koščak in the slightest. He watches them with perplexed detachment from his lofty vantage point, six ...

Standing in the shadow of the second highest mountain in the Himalayas is not the place soldiers in the U.S. Army likely expect to be. But for right now, that’s exactly where soldiers from the 11th ...