It began as an innocently planned multi-day hiking trip. Morgan Chesky, a broadcaster from Dallas, was fit and wanted a ...

Mountaineers Miguel Mapalad and Jeno Panganiban recount the extraordinary experience and the many challenges they had to ...

Experts say the appearance of these snakes, especially the king cobra, at such elevations is rare. King cobras are the ...

It’s no secret that Mt. Everest has been polluted with trash, dead bodies, oxygen bottles and the like since the advent of ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...

The view of a volcano rising above them! This stunning panorama shows the ancient Martian volcano Arsia Mons peeking through ...

On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit ...

Experts warn that rising temperatures in Nepal may be driving snakes to higher altitudes, indicating a potential impact of ...

Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.