This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. What’s the name of the tallest mountain in the world? The answer may surprise you. Most people would answer, Mount Everest, ...

Mount Everest has long been shorthand for the ultimate summit, the uncontested “top of the world.” Yet as geophysicists map Earth’s interior in finer detail and geographers revisit how we define ...

After a mountaineering chronicler found false summits, some mountaineers are returning to the top to update the record.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa, standing at 5,895 meters (19,340 ft) and is the world’s highest ...

Mount Everest, in the Nepalese Himalayas, is a byword for overtourism—and the government is looking to attract more people to other mountain peaks. The Nepalese government is waiving fees for anyone ...

The world’s tallest mountains have long loomed large in the public imagination. Yet no one managed to reach the highest point on every continent until the 1980s. Since then, completing the “Seven ...