Alex Chiu/Facebook A 41-year-old man who fell to his death earlier this week had recently recovered from North America's highest mountain. The National Park Service (NPS) shared in a press release ...

“The reason they do it is to promote business, and to give the impression that they’re trying to make mountain climbing in Nepal safer in order to attract more people to come,” said Alan ...

A lawmaker in India is demanding an end to climbing on the world's third-tallest mountain. The Chief Minister of India's Sikkim region wants climbers to steer clear of the 28,169ft (8,586m ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is so alkaline, it burns the skin and eyes of most animals and turns some to "stone." Lake Natron has a chemical makeup that is so harsh, it is uninhabitable for most ...

The two had disappeared during a hike on Mount Katadin, the tallest mountain in Maine. The body of Esther Keiderling, 28, was found on Wednesday afternoon in a boulder area between the Cathedral ...

Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, is the tallest mountain in all of North America and the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak on land. It's the third most prominent peak in the ...

Authorities in Alaska have confirmed the first death of the climbing season on America's tallest peak ... from a dangerous section on Denali Mountain, otherwise known as Mount McKinley.

But as soon as the weather cleared, two rangers in a helicopter found his body on the mountain, officials said. Mount McKinley is the tallest mountain in North America at 20,310 feet high ...

Alex Chiu, 41, was ascending the West Buttress climbing route of Mount McKinley — the tallest mountain in North America at 20,000 feet — with two others on Monday when he fell at a spot known ...