ASTANA – In January, Anar Burasheva stood atop Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, becoming the first woman from Kazakhstan to complete the Seven Summits, the challenge of climbing the ...

Out west, the Rocky Mountains play a major role in winter weather across North America. But do the Smokies do the same for East Tennessee?

See which roads in the country’s most-visited national park are now closed as a major snowstorm moves across East Tennessee.

“We are heading up a second peak of flu season,” said Caitlin Rivers, a Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist who writes the “Force of Infection” newsletter. The country saw its first peak right ...

The southern portion of the Japanese Alps also stretches into Shizuoka prefecture. Today more than ten percent of the land in ...

"Highpointers" are people with a quirky goal: summiting the highest point in each of the 50 states, from Mr. McKinley in ...

Is Ampersand Mountain Trail the most extreme hike in New York? The combination of the challenging elevation, the challenging terrain, and the mountaintop views make it an adventure worth taking. This ...

About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

These five states have the most mountain ranges in the United States, and the vast majority are found in the western portion of the country.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park first snowstorm of 2026 brought various totals depending on the elevation, according to snowfall reports. As expected, Knoxville did not see any snow ...