Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But will it hold that title forever? To answer this question, first we must understand how mountains form and how Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas got so tall. One way tall mountains form is when two tectonic plates collide. As […]
The father of a Yellowstone National Park worker has revealed the haunting final words written by his son at the top of a Wyoming mountain summit the day he vanished. Austin King, 22, was last in contact with family on September 17 after reaching the summit of Eagle Peak in Wyoming — Yellowstone’s highest mountain […]
The two women, one American and one British, became stranded on a Himalayan mountain when their food and equipment fell into a ravine, Indian officials said.
Fay Manners Fay Manners (right) climbed Chaukhamba mountain with her climbing partner Michelle Dvorak (left) A British climber who went missing in the Himalayas has spoken of her relief after surviving for two days in “brutal” conditions that put her life in danger. Fay Manners, originally from Bedfordshire, and her climbing partner, Michelle Dvorak from […]
The Pac-12 filed a lawsuit against the Mountain West on Tuesday taking aim at a pricey “poaching fee.” The suit, filed in the Northern District of California, alleges that the potential penalty is unenforceable under antitrust law. When the Pac-12 entered a scheduling agreement with the Mountain West last year, the MWC added the poaching […]
