The second tallest of the Seven Summits, Aconcagua sits deep in the Andes on the western edge of Argentina. At 22,841 feet, simply standing on top is a benchmark for high-altitude alpinists.

Today is May 25, a day which crept in like a snail that has been waiting for a very long while. The most important thing is ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and ...

A huge mass of rock and ice has caused damage near a village in the Swiss Alps that authorities evacuated earlier this month ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

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International organisations and places in the news are classic 'if you know, you know' (IYKYK) topics — often the ...