Nelly Attar—the first Lebanese to summit the five highest mountains in the world—explains why taking risks isn’t part of the process—it is the process itself.In the world of extreme sports, the stakes ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

I was around 16, sitting on the front porch talking to my friend on the phone, as many millennial teens did, when I heard a loud screech erupt from the pasture behind my childhood home in Oklahoma. I ...

EL DORADO COUNTY - There have been several mountain lion sightings across the Northern California Sierra Foothills recently. Some people have even said a mountain lion has killed their pet or ...

MATT: THERE’S NOTHING LIKE BEING OUT IN THE FRESH AIR AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY OFFERS SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR WORLD AND WE’LL BE SHOWING YOU ACTIVITIES YOU ...

Yes. When hunters kill mountain lions, Colorado law says “all edible parts of lions must be properly prepared for human consumption.” ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

Two decades ago, Zara McDonald was on a run in Marin near Mount Tamalpais around dusk when a mountain lion suddenly appeared above her, just 5 feet away — and stared at her. Its eyes then fixed on ...

If you’ve considered buying a skiing multi-pass this season, you’ve likely encountered one or more of the four main contenders. There are the two dominant pass programs—Ikon and Epic—and the ...