NASA unveiled its first intimate images of Pluto on Wednesday, showing with startling clarity an eerie realm where frozen water rises in mountains up to 11,000 feet high.

New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body (Mount ...

“It’s great — you’re skiing along on packed snow with wildflowers poking up on each side ... a view of the mountains (hey, there was nobody outside to look in). Close the wooden louvered ...

One of the youngest mountain ranges on Earth is also the world's highest above sea level, crowned by Mt. Everest. Sharply up in numbers, nearly three-quarter million people visited Nepal in 2016 ...

The main area of peaks, though, is at the eastern front of the range, between Lolo, Mont., (and Lolo Pass) on the north, to Darby., Mont. (and Nez Perce Pass) on the south), about 100 miles.

In the middle of the Sacramento Valley, where the earth transforms from flat, endless farmland to the craggy peaks of an ancient volcanic lake, my guide drives me past the creaking metal of a ...

The world is home to phenomenally beautiful mountain ranges, formed tens of millions of years ago when colliding tectonic plates folded and upthrusted, buckling from the powerful movement. Today ...