At 3,100 metres, the air is thin. There is little grass and the trees that do grow are sparse, spindly things. It seems an unlikely place to hold a football tournament. But since 2018, the village of ...

Yanick Ueltschi of Switzerland teamed up with two local Pakistanis to try the 7,795m peak. But crevasses slowed them down, ...

All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

Hunza, Nagar and Gilgit were in competition. The organisers said the events not only promote winter sports and winter tourism potential but also showcase local heritage and lifestyle of mountain ...

The Palisades fire has burned almost 24,000 acres through the Pacific Palisades and into the Santa Monica Mountains. The burn area covers several popular hiking spots, including Temescal Canyon ...

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” UO’s Leif Karlstrom, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “That ...

The newly mapped aquifer lies beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Cascades, acting like a giant, continental-sized lake stored in the mountains. “It is a continental-size lake stored in ...

Researchers are revealing the secrets of 6,000-year-old pine forests, preserved in ice patches in the Beartooth Mountains. These ice forests are giving up ancient secrets about the past — and future — ...