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 ...

In winter, little ones think of the Mount Washington Cog Railway as New Hampshire’s Polar Express. Others wonder if this is how Santa commutes to work. And train buffs, including ...

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.

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

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 ...