Julia Lyubova, 44, climbed all 29,032 feet of Mount Everest this past spring. The expert climber caught an altitude sickness ...

Europe's tallest active volcano, Italy's Mount Etna, has been lighting up the night sky with explosions, lava fountains and ...

Five Nepali men and three French women were also receiving treatment after they were injured by the avalanche, officials said ...

U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a site survey of landing zones for a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, Aug.

Mountaineer Jim Morrison hopped left on his skis, sending trickles of snow down a sheer gully on the North Face of Mount Everest, then he hopped to the right, his breath heavy in the oxygen-thin air.

The Campi Flegrei eruption in Italy spewed ash across 3.7 million square kilometers, cooling the planet by up to six degrees and poisoning the air with sulfur. This cataclysm struck as Neanderthals ...

For American climber Jim Morrison, the trek to the top of Mount Everest's north face was only the beginning of his historic ...

Europe's largest active volcano is constantly monitored for its next eruption. Scientists have discovered a novel way to predict the next eruption at Mount Etna, the active volcano on the Italian ...

Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local time on Wednesday. An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

In the dark of night on Monday, September 22, American ultrarunner Tyler Andrews was making his way through the Khumbu Icefall, the massive glacier at the base of Mount Everest, when disaster struck.

The storm that came spinning out of the Bay of Bengal in the north of the Indian Ocean last weekend was already notable. It pounded the Himalayas — the tallest mountains in the world — and unleashed a ...