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

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

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

A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD ... and it's the first time we've really been able to say that with high ...

Brian King from Inver Grove Heights had that experience scaling Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro last month. It’s the fourth-tallest mountain in the world. King watched the sunrise from the summit ...

PFEIFFER: This month, genetic testing confirmed that these undergraduate students had indeed taken the first known photographs of the Mount Lyell shrew. SUMMERS: It may seem like a lot of work to ...

“The eruptions are pretty big,” Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at Oregon State University who studies the fire-spouting formation, told KOIN. Located 300 miles off Oregon’s Coast, the Axial ...

Languages: English. Episode 7 of Kīlauea's ongoing eruption began at 6:41 p.m. HST (11:41 p.m. ET) on January 27, marking the latest phase of volcanic activity at the Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Hawaii.

The AP will also refer to Denali as Mount McKinley, since Mr. Trump's position gives him authority to alter geographical names of places inside the country. The Gulf of Mexico first appeared on a ...

At approximately 1:30 p.m. local time Monday, the volcano released a "small, sporadic splatter foundation," which then continued to increase in intensity until 6:41 p.m., when the eruptions began.

The company said once the GNIS is updated to show the “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” and “Mount McKinley ... signed by Trump on his first day in office.