A towering 5,000 feet high, with more than 7,000 steps, Mount Tai, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, is known for turning legs to jelly for anyone game for scaling to the top.

The kingdom called LaLa Land is located among the Carpathian Mountains. It is ruled by a temperamental emperor whom many of ...

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A mountain in New Zealand – seen as an ancestor by the country’s indigenous Maori people – is now legally considered a person. The Bill gives local tribes more say in maintaining the ...

Research published in the Journal of Research in Personality suggests that extroverts prefer beach holidays due to sociability, while introverts are drawn to the solitude of mountains. Extroverts ...

We are talking about the Carpathian regions, where tourists find harmony with ... who lived in a flat area. When people went to him, they said, "I'm off to Kryvyi, the one found in the plains." The ...

A trio of friends who have conquered the ten highest mountains in England and Wales ... better than ever and am looking to engage with the people of East Lancashire in order to smash our ...

In what would later be known as the 2008 K2 disaster – coming after a similar 1986 tragedy that saw five people die on the mountain – a massive ice avalanche swept away climbers' rope lines ...

Denali, the tallest mountain on the North American continent, is located about 60 miles northwest of Talkeetna. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File) People stand at the Eielson Visitor Center with a view of ...

"We've seen ruptured aortas from people hitting trees so hard," he adds. Peter Novom, manager of the Ski & Ride program at Okemo Mountain in Vermont, agrees that speed is a factor in the worst ...