When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually crowded with giants. Nearly all of them are clustered in the Himalayas and ...

BERLIN (AP) — Visitors to Germany's highest peak will have to do without the landmark gilded cross at its summit for the next few weeks. A helicopter on Tuesday lifted the cross from the 2,962-meter ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A 12-year-old Naperville resident is the youngest girl to climb to the highest point in each of the lower 48 states. The Highpointers Club, a membership organization for ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The south peak of Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest peak for well over a century, has been demoted to second place after decades of rising temperatures melted more then a third of the ...

GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A Chinese mountaineer has died after being hit by falling rocks while descending from the world’s second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. Guan Jing ...

ROCKWOOD, Tenn. (WATE) — He now resides in Rockwood, Tennessee, but Jim Meritt has hiked all over the world. Now 65, it’s been a lifelong journey for Merritt to blaze a trail to the top of the highest ...