I've realized that the number one recommendation I can make is the one many Americans overlook: hiring a mountain guide. I've got no skin in the game. I'm not a guide, just an American skier in love ...

In “109 Below,” a 2023 documentary about a daring three-day rescue on snow-choked and windswept Mount Washington in January, two lost hikers, frostbitten and hypothermic, had given up hope of ...

Survivors of the devastating Lake Tahoe-area avalanche that killed nine skiers said the group welcomed the treacherous conditions that ultimately cost them their lives.

The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

The avalanche that killed nine people near Lake Tahoe raises questions about just how safe the fast-growing adventure tourism ...

An alpine divorce is a viral term describing the abandonment of a partner during a dangerous hike. Here’s what it means and where it comes from.

Below the Clouds” and Werner Herzog’s “Ghost Elephants” offer thrilling but troubled visions of a world in environmental flux.

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous,” said the great Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner. Once again ...

States are preparing for, while trying to avoid, cutbacks to the water they get from the Colorado River. Here are some key ...

The recent avalanche that killed nine people in California raises questions about just how safe the fast-growing adventure ...

The Trump administration is reportedly working to remove information linking the disappearing glaciers to climate change and discussing the United States’ historical abuses of Indigenous people.

The nor’easter smacking much of the Northeast with nearly 3 feet of snow in places is as classic and powerful a blizzard as you can get, the strongest in a decade and up there with the most intense in ...