After Hurricane Helene decimated parts of western North Carolina, it was not just humans who answered the call for aid.

Good-natured, surefooted, and hardy, riders love the Rocky Mountain horse for many different reasons. But one of the horse’s most appealing characteristics may be their four-beat single-footed gait.

A hunt for mountain lions along the Gila River in New Mexico led the hunter, Charles Elliott, and his guide on a chase ...

But in a world of borders and roads, horse nomads have virtually disappeared. Anthropologist and host Niobe Thompson travels to Mongolia, where high in the Altai Mountains he joins some of the ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Deep in the mountains of western Sichuan I'm hacking through a bamboo jungle, trying to find a legendary trail. Just 60 ...

And we got those horses loaded up. One of Savvy's most harrowing rescues happened in Sunland-Tujunga, a remote area between the Crescenta Valley and the Verdugo Mountains. Driving up the canyon in ...

"According to the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders, we had one of the largest ... and the strength of Mountain Springs' stallion roster are the main reasons the ownership group focused on Mountain ...