We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America’s highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land masses once joined together. Between 72 million and 56 million years ago, an oceanic plate called the Wrangellia Composite Terrane bumped into […]
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901. Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of […]
’Tis the season for cozy dressing, snow bunny sartorial sensibilities, Alpine ’fits. Chloë Sevigny, everyone’s favorite New York it-girl, looked instead to take inspiration from the mountains for her Christmas-time look. She was appearing at the 47th Annual Kennedy Center Honors a few weeks ago in Washington D.C., a yearly event which is set to […]
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, it claims, 90% of Syria’s known surface-to-air missiles. But it is Israel’s capture of Syria’s highest peak, the Mount Hermon […]
I’ve always had an obsession with bags, in part because I needed something to transport all my stuff, obviously, but also because carrying a bag is an opportunity to express yourself—and to nerd out over aesthetics, form, and function. At some point during college, I said goodbye to my backpack and opted for a tote […]
Police in New Zealand say they believe three men who went missing days ago on Aoraki Mt Cook – the country’s tallest mountain – are dead. Americans Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and an unnamed Canadian national were reported missing on Monday when they failed to meet their flight out from the mountain. […]
Two Americans and a Canadian were climbing Mount Cook before failing to show up to a prearranged flight on Monday.
Nov 29, 2024, 08:37 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Colorado State coach Emily Kohan said her team will take the court rather than become the latest one to forfeit against San Jose State after the top-seeded Rams advanced to the Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament final Friday. An automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA […]
To avoid people, mountain lions (Puma concolor) in the greater Los Angeles area are changing their activity patterns. The big cats that live near areas where humans hike, run, and cycle are becoming increasingly more nocturnal than the mountain lions who live in more remote areas. The findings are detailed in a study published November […]
If you have a family and you like to be outside, you should have walkie-talkies. In a lot of places where cell coverage is spotty, you need a better way of keeping track of each other than running back and forth and yelling. Kids love walkie-talkies. There’s nothing that my 9-year-old likes better than signaling […]
