Thunderstorms are capable of growing higher than the cruising altitude of airplanes, and twice the height of Mt. Everest.

A photographer, an airline pilot, a ship’s captain and others reveal where you’ll find the most spectacular, intriguing and ...

Mount Spurr has shown increasing signs of activity. These are now at a level where an eruption is plausible. Nothing is ever guaranteed with Alaskan volcanoes: they can always ...

The Cactus to Clouds ascent just outside Palm Springs, Calif., is grueling, but natural treasures, and a speedy trip down, ...

Blind Bulgarian ultramarathon runner Victor Asenov defied sleeplessness and exhaustion to repeatedly scale Vitosha mountain ...

A squad of climbers, steeled by ascents in the Tetons, made a historic Himalayan climb in 1963, even after the mountain ...

Scientists are taking an urgent trip to Mount Everest to explore why the ice of one of the mountain’s most iconic glaciers is ...

There is a cave in the world which has its own ecosystem. This cave has a forest, river, rocks, trenches and much more. It ...

ASHA worker Jyotsna Suresh Patel in Daman’s Kachigam village carried a heavy weighing scale to weigh newborn babies. The ...

The vast line will be made up of tunnels passing through 105 miles (170km) of majestic mountains and bridges extending up above peaks and clouds ... including K2 and Mount Everest.

As graceful and ephemeral as it appears, Odette-Odile is a dancer’s Mount Everest, requiring stellar technique, prodigious training, uncommon stamina, emotional resilience — and even carbo ...