On a clear sunny day in the Seattle/Tacoma area of Washington State, the locals often remark “The Mountain is out.” Gaze eastward and you, too, will see The Mountain, a 14,410-foot-tall (4,392 meters) ...

Carbon River is fed by a glacier and melting snow off an arm of Mount Rainier. Cappetto said that if weather permits, deputies will try to survey the canyon by air the rest of the week.

Several federally operated campgrounds at one of Pennsylvania’s most popular summer destinations will be closed indefinitely due to “executive-order driven staffing shortages.” Raystown Lake, in ...

NAMCHE BAZAR, NEPAL — Randi Gardypie of Merritt is in northeastern Nepal on a fundraising hike to Mount Everest South Base Camp, more than 5,000 metres above sea level. One of her friends started a ...

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies ... to be transported by foot from Everest’s base camp to Camp I can be airlifted within 15 minutes.