MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks. Of its 20 ...

At an altitude of about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) on May 24th, Peng was just trying out his new paragliding equipment on the Qilian mountain range in northern China.

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Born in Vietnam to Chinese parents ... or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

And it has the name Agion Oros (Holy Mountain ... 50: Chinese, born in Vietnam Isaiah has been living in Simonos Petra since 2006, arriving there from an affiliated monastery in France as ...

A new series of Race Across the World is back on our screens, and this time, the teams are navigating themselves through a ...