Nail-biting footage shows a hiker balancing on a narrow peak while scrambling between mountains on the Isle of Skye. Scott MacLucas-Paton, 48, jumps between rocks on Scottish island.

Timothy Murray, 16, of West Yorkshire, was found dead after hiking Stac Pollaidh, north of Ullapool in Scotland on Sunday. He was found dead hours after another teen plunged to his death in Wales.

The two men were scaling Ben Hope in Sutherland and sent a distress call. A search and rescue effort was paused overnight but bodies were found at 2am.

The 28-year-old chart-topping musician was up in the air by fellow Game Of Thrones star Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson in a video recently posted by the strongman.

They did the clip from amid lockdown in Björnsson's native Iceland, where seven people have died amid the 1,675 people who've tested for coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University .

Björnsson  - who is best known for playing 'The Mountain' on the hit HBO series - performed the deadlift in an empty Reykjavík gym due to coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings.

Lydia O'Sullivan, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, has been travelling for the past two years and had not been seen or heard from for eight days, even though she ordinarily contacted her family daily.

The 10th Duke of Baccleuch, Richard Scott, is expected to sell the chunk of his 83,000 acre Queensberry Estate in Dumfries and Galloway. The deal has not yet been finalised.

The Spaniard's playing days so far have taken him from Spain, to Italy, to England and back to his homeland again, but the Liverpool centre-back has made a lasting impression.

The Gospers Mountain mega blaze is continuing to tear through Bilpin, northwest of Sydney, with firefighters expected to work tirelessly through the night as conditions are not forecast to ease.

Photographs show the carnage on Saturday night as intense weather conditions propelled a mega-blaze covering 460,000 hectares from Gospers Mountain through to the Blue Mountains.

The NSW RFS Hawkesbury District announced that firefighters have managed to control the blaze which had been burning for nearly three months.

She recently baffled her followers when, along with fellow Love Island star Georgia Harrison, she revealed an unlikely friendship with movie star Rebel Wilson.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rode a white horse up sacred mountain Mount Paektu in Ryanggang on his second symbolic visit in less than two months, in photos released on Wednesday.

Robert Frome, 26, from Hampshire, died after falling from Mount Tymfi in north western Greece. The Oxford graduate got disorientated in the dark and plunged to his death.

Gyllenhaal recalled how Ledger stood his ground while talking to Another Man magazine, recalling he didn't find anything funny about the heart-wrenching love story between two cowboys. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rode a white horse up sacred mountain Mount Paektu in Ryanggang on his second symbolic visit in less than two months, in photos released on Wednesday.

OLLIE LEWIS: When Khabib Nurmagomedov threw himself at his foes in the aftermath of UFC 229, few would be aware that his behaviour channelled the spirit of a Dagestani fighting legend.

The 40-year-old posted several selfies from the trip, captioned with a reference to Gus Van Sant's 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix: 'My own Private Idaho.'

A team of five British mountaineers got into difficulty when one of the group slipped on a glacier while scaling Koyo Zom in Pakistan. They fell around 98 feet and had to be rescued from the slope.

Jessie J was enjoying some quality time with her friends when she paid a visit to Six Flags Magic Mountain with a small group of friends in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Coronavirus presents a 'clear and present danger' to wildlife that could push vulnerable species 'over the edge', a leading expert from Birmingham University warned last night.

Geraint Thomas and Team Ineos had every reason to be satisfied as they reached the first rest day of the Tour de France in an enviable position. He is in second place in the general classification.

Tour de France organisers put a spring in the step of the climbers after unveiling the 2020 route featuring a mountain stage on the second day and one time trial on the eve of the final Champs Elysees parade.

Tour de France organisers put a spring in the step of the climbers after unveiling the 2020 route featuring a mountain stage on the second day and one time trial on the eve of the final Champs Elysees parade.

A crater caused by a crashed meteor or the remnants of a colossal dormant volcano? Neither. Kondyor Massif in Siberia's far east is the result of a little-understood surge of volcanic rock.

The US fashion brand's lenders will inject £322m of cash and take control of the chain at the same time as cancelling its debt. The preppy brand counts Meghan Markle among its high profile fans.

A video shows the Mount Tai, one of China's five greatest mountains, being jam-packed with visitors this morning. Similar sights can be spotted in other famous tourist attractions in China today.

Households have £45bn more debt on credit cards, personal loans and overdrafts compared to the start of 2010 - growth of 25% in 10 years, Bank of England data shows.

Stunning images of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas mountains taken in infrared radiation have been released by NASA from more than 440miles (708km) above Earth's surface.

The climate system is a global, inter-locking one, and its many facets cannot be considered in isolation. However, this is precisely what the National Action Plan on Climate Change has done, writes Sudhirendar Sharma.

Chandi Prasad Bhatt said that for him every river was a Ganga, a source of life and renewal, abused or ill-treated at one's peril. His work has been an education for others, writes Ramachandra Guha.

Nungshi and Tashi Malik from Dehradun have created history as the only twin sisters in the world to have scaled the seven highest peaks across the seven continents. Surekha Kadapa-Bose brings us the story of their feat in the face of myriad odds.

Lalitha Sridhar reviews Voices from the Mountain, Oral Testimonies from Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh.

As the coronavirus infects more people around the world, Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to about a third of the world’s mountain gorillas, is barring visitors until June 1, citing “advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the Covid-19 virus”.

Chen died of lung cancer on December 17, his wife, Dr Sun-Ling Chen, told a publication on Tuesday from the family's home in Temecula, California.

With a home office like no other, when Red Bull mountain biker Fabio Wibmer 'works', you can expect an array of insane tricks and stunts to keep his roommates company.

With a home office like no other, when Red Bull mountain biker Fabio Wibmer 'works', you can expect an array of insane tricks and stunts to keep his roommates company.

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In the mountains, losing yourself and losing your way are two different things. A seasoned biker and explorer tells you how to find your way

A tale set in Norway shortly after AD 1000.

Archival collections often have variety of printed material and ephemera such as pamphlets, broadsides, books, and maps. Periodically, these offer unexpected perspective on an aspect of history, as is the case with a smallish, three-dimensional 1872 relief map titled Map of the White Mountains N.H. nestled in the papers of Lincoln’s assistant secretary of the navy, Gustavus Vasa Fox. As its name...

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The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

Under an ICAR project, NRCM in Nagaland is working on increasing population of mithuns a milch animal referred to as the 'ship of the highland'' or 'cattle of the mountains'' through embryo transfer technology and has recently seen its first success

Fly over Pluto's beautiful mountains and the plains of its "heart" in this amazing NASA animation built with some of the first close-up images from the New Horizons probe.

If you're a hiker and a beer fanatic this $50 starter kit from Pat's Backcountry Beverages could make your day. Clever engineering and technology make brews light enough for even extended backpacking trips. Cheers! TIRED Beer concentrates and the carbonator make brews that can be good, but they aren't great. Then again, you might not care after a long day of hiking.

In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes.

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