Chimborazo Volcano in Ecuador is a spectacular snow-covered mountain rising above the rugged landscapes of the Andes.

Chimborazo's unique location near the equator makes it an attractive destination for mountaineers. Mount Chimborazo, an inactive stratovolcano in the Ecuadorian Andes, has challenged Mount Everest for ...

Mount Everest still holds the title most of us learned in school. At 29,031.69 feet above sea level, it is the highest mountain on Earth when measured from the ocean’s average surface, but there is ...

What is the highest mountain on Earth? Turns out the answer to that question is more debatable than you might think. If you measure altitude above mean sea level, then the 29,032-foot (8,849-meter) ...

If there’s one thing everyone knows about mountains—and given the state of geography education today, that may be a pretty accurate estimate—it’s that Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, is the Earth’s ...

Early in the morning on Sunday October 23, 12 Ecuadorian climbers were hit by a D3/R4 avalanche—this classifies the slide as very large and destructive—while ascending the Standard Route on the west ...

You can now see a facial reconstruction — and the particular hairstyle — of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what ...