Visitors can head into these mountains alone. But everything we read recommended hiring a guide for a much deeper experience ...

Alaska, largely unspoiled wilderness, looks like something out of The Lord of the Rings.

NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a stunning top-down view of an "unusually spectacular" Mount Etna eruption. Infrared data ...

The Hurst Fire, which erupted Jan. 7 and was fully contained on Jan. 16, did not result in any structures being destroyed or cause any deaths, but did force the closure of the 5 and 210 freeways ...

From the summit of the Magdalensberg, a panoramic view opens up over central Carinthia. A gentle hilly landscape with enchanted valleys and stone witnesses from the Middle Ages.

Homicide squad detectives are investigating the death of a man in a fire above a law office in Melbourne's south.

The revised regulations require a high-altitude support staff or mountain guide to be assigned for every two climbers for peaks above 8,000 metres, including the 8,849 metres tall Mt Everest The ...

The Sixth amendment of the mountaineering regulation was released late by Nepal after which climbers were banned from solo expedition in all the 8000ers peaks. Nepal has officially banned solo ...

“Once things leave my files,” Etel Adnan wrote to me, “I never know where they are, and don’t think about them anymore, otherwise you lose your mind.” Her method is sound: now ninety-three, she has ...

and it was a big shock." "The motorway was passing 300 meters above the river. I hadn’t even considered the possibility of passing at a high level. Immediately, I said we were being stupid.

Large clouds of smoke have been seen at Mount Edgcumbe as eyewitnesses report a fire at the estate. Video footage taken from Plymouth reveal smoke billowing from the site at around 5pm today ...