Ask a room full of people which country has the most mountains and the responses swing wildly from Switzerland to Nepal to Peru. The real answer is far less obvious because it depends on how you ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

The allure of the unexplored lies at the very core of what adventure is all about. For many, simply exploring places that are new to us as individuals is tremendously exciting. To tread where no ...

On the left end of northern Arizona's San Francisco Peaks sits a dormant, 12,000-foot-tall volcano known as Humphrey's Peak. It's not just the elevation that makes this mountain special, though, it's ...

Kilian Jornet wanted to summit 72 of the tallest peaks in the contiguous United States. He gave himself a month to do it. By Scott Cacciola and K.K. Rebecca Lai Kilian Jornet was drenched and tired.

On his “States of Elevation” project, Kilian Jornet intends to summit the 60-plus so-called 14ers in the contiguous United States, connecting each by bike or foot. On his “States of Elevation” project ...