Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subrange of the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Smoky Mountains are known for the fog that usually hovers around the tops of ...

Earth's longest mountain range is not on land but beneath the ocean. The Mid-Ocean Ridge System stretches an incredible ...

A road leads the way towards the Sierra Nevada of California - Alex Potemkin/Getty Images There are thousands of named mountain ranges in the United States of America. From the East Coast to the West ...

Jeremy Powell of Boise takes a photo from the top of Thompson Peak. Powell hiked the highest peak in each of the mountain ranges and subranges in Idaho. (courtesy Jeremy Powell) When Jeremy Powell ...

Do you long to be surrounded by summery pastures and sweet edelweiss high in the Bavarian Alps, like Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music?" Or would you prefer the snowy challenge of a glacier ...

This video shows a rugged mountain landscape in the Andes Mountains of Chile, filled with sharp rocky peaks, steep ridges, ...

Mountains may experience a "growth spurt" that can double their heights in as little as two to four million years -- several times faster than the prevailing tectonic theory suggests. Mountains may ...

The keys to the gates are in hand for access to one of California's last off-limits lands of secrets and mysteries. A series of 32 guided weekend hikes and adventures over the next three months start ...

Hydrogen gas formed by natural processes in the subsurface of mountain ranges could represent a promising source of clean energy. A new international study led by Unil and GFZ shows that erosion plays ...

In 2012, a wildfire ripped through 42 square kilometers of alpine moorland in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains, a range of ...