mountains

Despite tales of overcrowding, fighting and tragedy, hundreds of people continue to try to summit Everest every year. What's the appeal?

Seasonal changes in air pressure sometimes make Mount Everest's "perceived elevation" to shrink by thousands of feet, a new study finds.

Other mountains could be considered Earth's tallest; it just depends how you measure them.

Cloud forests actually may see brighter light levels than sunny forest expanses, but despite this are surprisingly tolerant of drought, new research finds.

Scientists see amazing wildlife and new species in a remote corner of the planet.

Hundreds of climbers form lines to attempt to push for the summit and this past weekend the results were deadly.

A tourist trying to retrieve a lost phone fell into Mount Vesuvius on Saturday and was rescued.

A new image from the Landsat 8 satellite shows the contrast of artificial snow against an otherwise snowless mountain at the Winter Olympics in China.

Geologists have dated mountains all over the world, allowing them to discover some of the oldest and youngest ranges on the planet.