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 ...

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.

Tettegouche State Park in Silver Bay. Spanning 9,346 acres of pure natural splendor, this isn’t just another dot on the map; it’s nature’s ultimate stress-relief sanctuary.

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

Local authorities are shutting down a hiking destination on Mount Everest in China’s Tibet region after heavy snowfall ...

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 ...

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 ...

A menacing 50-degree slope and 9,000 feet straight down: that’s the terrain American mountaineer Jim Morrison tackled when he ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering ...