Earth’s tallest mountain is getting even taller. An eroding river gorge has thrusted Mount Everest higher, as it pulls rock and sediment away from the area. Over the past 89,000 years it is believed ...

Mount Everest has grown up to 164 ft taller because of the combined forces of erosion and upward pressure from beneath ...

This is what the new research argues, but fundamentally it is earthquakes that push mountains higher. When the megathrust ...

Gerard McCarten, of Whitehaven, will not leave his hometown for the challenge and will cycle a route around the area of Jericho School at Hensingham. Gerard will cycle the height of an inactive ...

In native Hawaiian tradition and prayers, Mauna Kea is known as Mauna a Wakea, “The Mountain of Wakea”. Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth but when measured from base to peak Mauna ...

Kayla Perez, a mountaineer from Las Vegas, has defied the seemingly impossible by taking on Earth's highest heights, despite ...

The British man completed the challenge in under 72 hours with the aim of sharing a light on the stunning locations across ...

On a bright Wednesday in August, 15 eager children from Zomba rural and urban climbed the Zomba Plateau for a transformative ...

Sixty-year-old British adventurer Neil Laughton has set a new record for the highest-altitude cycle ride after pedalling a ...

Sixty-year-old British adventurer Neil Laughton has set a new record for the highest-altitude cycle ride after pedalling a fold-up bike on top of a 7,246-metre Nepalese peak.

standing 50m below the peak of the highest mountain on earth, blind in prescription glacier glasses, blind without.” There’s something otherworldly about all the climbers’ accounts of this day, a ...