MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

Mountains are landforms that rise above the land around them. Usually, they are more than 600 metres high. They have steep sides and either rounded or sharp peaks. Many mountains are part of ...

Faced with the classic pub quiz question asking for the tallest mountain in the world, you may confidently answer Mount Everest. But the reality is a bit more complex. Depending on how you measure ...

Trump had said, ‘They took his name off Mount McKinley…He was a great president, and we will restore his legacy by ...

Plotting the course: I was invited to photograph a group of German geologists who were using very detailed GPS readings to measure how tectonic-plate movement is shifting the Rwenzori Mountains.