Thousands of climbers attempt to summit the roof of Africa each year. Here's what it's like to be one of them.

Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the world’s most well-known and iconic mountains. Located in Tanzania, which is in East Africa, ...

Africa is renowned for its big wildlife, even bigger rivers and, perhaps surprisingly, its big mountains, with Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Kenya and the ... success rate and is not too crowded. One of the ...

This striking satellite photo shows the unusual shape of Spirit Lake, which was transformed into a giant anatomically inaccurate heart by the explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

The first two scenarios are considered to be equally likely at this time. A further, though less likely, scenario is that there is an eruption at the summit of Mount Spurr itself. "An eruption ...

Author Lisa Ballard dives into why some people push outdoor skills to the limits and how chasing thrills can outweigh the risks.

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Mount Spurr, an Alaskan volcano shuddering with small earthquakes for 10 months, could erupt soon. The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) stated on February 7 that an eruption would "most likely ...

Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily ... the lava flow had extended to over two kilometres (1.2 miles). The first eruption began on the evening of February 8 and remains ...

Five hours after the initial eruption, at 7:06 p.m., the disaster intensified when Mount Vesuvius ejected the first pyroclastic flows—the deadly hot and rapidly moving flows of gas and ...