A backcountry skier who broke his leg in steep, snowy terrain at 8,000 feet was successfully hoisted off a mountain near Tahoe on Saturday night.

Every year there is a special time before and after vacation peak seasons where travelers can take advantage of nice weather, ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

As a boy, I fell in love with Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, for all its beauty, grandeur and wonderment. But it was the Scenic Railway, which rocketed down the side of a cliff ...

Two men are in training to climb Iceland's highest mountain to help fund a bakery that would offer vital work experience to fellow reformed addicts. Tommy Tonner, 35, and Colin Kerr, 45, had ...

A huge, upside-down U.S. flag now hangs from a prominent peak at Donner Summit near Truckee. Someone — possibly a group of rock climbers, locals speculate — affixed the flag to an east-facing granite ...

Scott Pickles, 49, is preparing to tackle the National 3 Peaks Challenge not once, but twice in under 48 hours to raise funds for mental health charity Casual Minds Matter CIC. The challenge, which ...

Researchers from the Budget Lab at Yale University estimate that "consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 27 percent, the highest since 1903." "This is only slightly different ...