Very few cities have mountains in them. Cities, as a rule, tend to avoid them. Especially in Britain. Edinburgh is the notable exception. One mountain in particular possibly springs to mind when I ...

Steve Stevens still doesn’t have an answer to a question he was first asked in August, right after he had finished climbing Mount Elbrus. The 18,510-foot peak in Russia is the tallest mountain in ...

WALLINGFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Emma Schwerin, a student at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford and originally from Montana, is known as the youngest woman to complete the Seven Summits. The mountainous ...

With the goal of climbing the Seven Summits to raise funds and awareness to combat gender-based violence, this adventurer set her sight’s on The White Continent. Explorers of the Heroic Age risked ...

The prayer flags shouldn't have been moving. At 29,032 feet, where the air is too thin to sustain human life, even wind seems impossible. But they danced anyway, brilliant scraps of color against the ...

On May 18, Travis Van Overbeke, of Lake Stevens, stood atop the world — literally, at the peak of Mount Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level — marking the culmination of a 16-year pursuit to ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. SPOKANE, Wash. — Steve Stevens still doesn’t have an answer to a question he was first asked in ...

Steve Stevens still doesn’t have an answer to a question he was first asked in August, right after he’d finished climbing Mount Elbrus. The 18,510-foot peak in Russia is the tallest mountain in Europe ...