Viridiana Álvarez, 39, set a Guinness World Record after climbing all of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000 meters and the ...

A nurse has scaled Mount Everest and plans to tackle more mountains to showcase how tough the profession is. Rowena Rowberry, ...

Some, like Lassen Volcanic National Park, offer a less-crowded alternative to packed parks such as Yellowstone. Other parks, ...

Oregon lawmakers aim to speed up the process for renaming dozens of creeks, lakes, mountains and other sites that still hold ...

Corenne Black, a ranger with the New York State Department of Conservation, has summited 1,000 peaks and is planning for more ...

The sense of total isolation felt rejuvenating as I hopped off the hiker bus in the heart of Denali National Park. My two ...

"I would also add mountains that are close to 7,000 meters to that list and that are widely used as preparation, like Ama Dablam, Aconcagua, Denali and others," said Furtenbach. Garrett Madison of ...

Earth Day also falls during National Park Week. Celebrated for 55 years, one billion people in 193 countries host events and celebrations of the planet, its resources and our commitment to protect it.

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s 7,000-meter (22,965 ft) peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at reducing ...

Alex was an accomplished mountain climber and Northwestern University graduate who had scaled Everest and Denali ... I know how happy the mountains made him." He loved his kids to the moon ...

Whychus Creek, renamed in 2006, was previously one of several locations in Oregon named after a slur used against Indigenous ...

Local birding expert David Sonneborn took me out birding a couple of times, and we managed to see Hudsonian Godwits in the ...