What’s the name of the tallest mountain in the world? The answer may surprise you. Most people would answer, Mount Everest, but actually it is Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii. The inactive volcano ...

Mount Everest has long been shorthand for the ultimate summit, the uncontested “top of the world.” Yet as geophysicists map Earth’s interior in finer detail and geographers revisit how we define ...

A view of Mount Rainier near a calm lake. There’s a common saying in western Washington: “The mountain is out.” The mountain in question is Mount Rainier. Also known as Mount Tacoma, this hulking ...

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 ...