Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer in 'Everest' ...

Almost 300,000 residents in Alaska's largest city are bracing for an explosive volcanic eruption. Mount Spurr, a 11,000-foot-tall volcano that sits just 81 miles from the largest city in the ...

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies will test drones that can ferry loads as heavy as 35 pounds in the high altitudes, bring back ladders used to ...

Alaska residents are again being urged to brace themselves for a possible eruption of Mount Spurr. Following up on last week's warning, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reiterated in a series of ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ash cloud that it turned victims' brains into glass, according to a new study. Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass ...

Image: The remains of a custodian killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pic: Reuters/Pier Paolo Petrone The man was first discovered in the 1960s inside a building called the College of the ...

Sherpa on Mount Everest is a dangerous job. They transport equipment through the dangerous Khumbu Icefall. Drones are supposed to reduce the danger. Sherpas on Mount Everest, the highest mountain ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius ... turns out the eruption had somehow ...