Ruby Falls is an underground waterfall located over 1,000 feet beneath Lookout Mountain in East Tennessee. Travelers visit ...

Over the weekend, a hiker fell in the “99 Switchbacks” section of Whitney's main trail, according to the Inyo County ...

Thompson brings a lot of experience to the question, having climbed the Seven Summits (the tallest mountains on each ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Most American mountains are not very tall by global ...

Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and a former record-holder in Alaska’s Mount Marathon race, did ...

In a nod to extraterrestrial mountaineers of the future, scientists working on NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Titan’s tallest peak is 10,948 ...

While each of the four nations that comprise the United Kingdom boast mountain regions of their own, Scotland’s high places are the highest, most extensive and the most spectacular. The country’s ...

New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimetres high, due to the huge gravity on the ultra-dense objects. The research is presented today at the ...

With the prospect of Denali being renamed Mount McKinley, allow me to offer some historical perspective that supports a return to McKinley as the name. As I looked skyward from my office deck on that ...

Two men were struck by lightning on Thursday near Humphrey's Peak, Arizona's highest mountain, according to the ...