This week, three metres of powder snow will coat Japan’s Central Alps, a region Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata labelled ...

When Al and I parked our car at a lot near the DTW airport at 4:30 a.m. recently, it was raining and cold. We quickly took ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...

Newly on public display this summer at Highland Wildlife Park are female snow leopard Pari and two native felines in their ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

Steiger fell in love with lake effect snow as an undergraduate at SUNY Oswego. Later, while attending graduate school in ...

It was my birthday! The best of my presents was a trip to the Rocky Mountains! After much discussion regarding what to take ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of ...

Whichever method you choose, installation instructions vary from product to product. In general, start by washing the ...

Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth, author of "Grit," told the seniors to embrace “situation modification” — change your physical environment, especially your phone's proximity, to protect ...

The ultimate guide to Whiteface Mountain, New York's premier ski destination.