The government of Nepal held a celebration Monday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

In 1954, seven passengers and three crewmen died after an Air Force plane broke apart midair. Forty-two years after the crash ...

Michael Thompson, who died on 18 March after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier, was a former Gurkha officer, mountaineer, and founding pillar of Cultural Theory. His daughter Ursula said it was a ...

Jim Raffone will bring at least 15 Metropolitan-area runners to the Mingus Mountains in the Arizona desert to help raise money for a cure.

Planning your first high altitude trek? An experienced trekker shares ten practical items that keep you comfortable, prepared, and ready for mountain weather.

Here’s something that’ll surprise you: Texas has its own herd of wild bison, and they’re not in a zoo. Caprock Canyons State Park near Quitaque is where these magnificent beasts roam free, and it’s ...

Here’s something they don’t tell you in the tourism brochures: Washington has a forest so otherworldly that your first instinct upon entering will be to check if someone slipped something into your ...

Ex-Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak was also taken into custody amid probe into their roles during deadly anti-corruption protests last September, which killed 76 people.