Mt. LeConte Lodge is a fairly hard-to-reach and hard-to-book getaway. The lodge and peak are only accessible by one of six trails: Alum Cave Trail, Boulevard Trail, Bullhead Trail, Rainbow Falls Trail ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 17-year-old mountaineering prodigy, has become the youngest person to conquer the highest peaks on all seven continents, including Mount Everest and Mount Vinson. Her remarkable ...

Dan Cotner summited a peak in the Himalayas in November – an accomplishment he said the Boise Climbers Alliance helped ...

The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

A significant area of Cretaceous rock exposures in northwest Montana has been recognized as an International Geoheritage Site, Montana State University announced on Thursday.

In 2015, the name of the peak was changed during the Obama administration to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and ...

The price to climb Mount Everest will soon increase for the first time in nearly a decade, as Nepal announces a sharp mark-up ...

President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's ...

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