Mount Thor, also known as Thor Peak, is a mountain in Nunavut, Canada with the largest vertical drop in the world — a terrifying escarpment with an average overhang of 15 degrees from vertical.

It’s my turn to steel myself to the cold and to light the stove.” The two British explorers died on Everest in May ...

If you’re a regular hiker the most important piece of kit you’ll ever buy is your walking boots, but with so many styles to ...

According to the post, the avalanche was about 328 feet across, 656 feet long, and, in some places, six and a half feet deep.

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

If you were totally ignorant of England’s geography and new to its national parks, you’d probably first head for the Peak District in search of its tallest mountains. You’d find relatively ...

Aversion to tall poppies is said to be particularly strong in Australia and New Zealand, where the idea of a “tall poppy syndrome” was invented in the 1980s.

New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its importance to Māori tribes but also paving the way for its future environmental ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized.

The 8,200ft mountain now recognised as a person in bizarre move by New Zealand The odd move makes Taranaki Maunga "a living and indivisible whole" with the full right and powers of a human.

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being ...

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted ...