A visitor at Ice Mountain in Hampshire County feels cold air flowing out of "ice vents." (Photo courtesy Historic Hampshire) NORTH RIVER MILLS, W.Va.— One of West Virginia's most fascinating natural ...

GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat ...

Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on May 28. After a few days of ominous advances, coupled with rockslides ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

At this little country store, hikers take on the half-gallon challenge. Those who finish are awarded a commemorative wooden ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall ...

But we can’t see them because the high alpine peaks and deep glacial valleys are entombed beneath kilometres of ice. How did they come to be? Typically, a mountain range will rise in places ...

Rescuers fetched two men struck by lightning from a Colorado peak in what they believe were the highest helicopter rescues on ...

The label says "Ice Mountain Natural Spring Water," but a lawsuit filed Thursday in Madison claims that it's nothing more than lowland tap water. Two Madison women and their attorneys claim that Ice ...

"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape ...

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