Higinio “Quino” Gonzalez bucked the stereotype of the backcountry guide, immersing himself in opera and languages before he ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak once trudged up the steep, snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains ...

Mountain guide Keith Scott, who has extensive experience in the most extreme terrain of the Snowy Mountains, retraced much of ...

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

Afghan exiles find snowboarding freedom in France Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on foot before ...

In December, 23-year-old Hadi Nazari went missing in Kosciuszko National Park for 13 days, sparking a massive search ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.

Earth's biggest hidden mountains revealed deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean The world's largest mountains have been found deep inside Earth, according to a landmark paper published in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a sunny early January afternoon, two thousand fishermen, farmers and activists gathered on the dry river ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

Recent comments from Martin Raiser, the World Bank vice president for South Asia, have offered a hopeful outlook for Pakistan’s economy. He stated that if Pakistan adopts the right reforms and ...

Pakistan's intent of preparing a rank-turner for the Test assignment against West Indies backfired as the tourists managed to trap the hosts in their own spin web on a dusty Multan pitch.