A mountain ravaged by recent wildfires experiencing a rebirth with the arrival of spring as thousands of cherry trees bloomed among the ashes. Breath-taking aerial images show one side of…
A 44-year-old politician has been killed in an avalanche during a ski-ing trip in Italy. Simone Rossi was swept away by tonnes of snow as his party of six skiers…
A 73-year-old Italian farmer has died after suffering an agonising attack in remote mountain woodlands by what local media say could have been a wolf. Passersby found victim Albet Stocker…
Mountain rescuers guide a frozen hiker as they inch down the virtually sheer side of a 9,000-foot canyon. The hiker, not named by local media in the US state of…
Climbing enthusiasts in China have criticised the building of an escalator complete with cooling mist that allows visitors to reach the mountaintop in minutes without breaking a sweat. The 1,100-ft-long…
A hungry snow leopard was filmed as it came down a mountain, apparently hoping to make a meal out of a shepherd's herd but was met by his six fearless…
An adventure seeker hiking to the top of a mountain managed to capture a perfectly round 360-degree rainbow that could be clearly seen from the peak. The rare rainbow was…
A Russian scientist plunged to his death off an Alpine peak after his hiking app apparently sent him over a mountain precipice. Dr Dmitry Fedyanin's body was found at the…
Manmade global warming is causing more and more plant species to migrate to the high Andes and displace rare mountain plants, boffins have revealed. According to a study recently published…
A horrified hiker watched her fiance plunge 300 feet to his death down a mountain ravine after they took a wrong turn on a walking trip. Doctor Emilio Gentile, 26,…