A hiker's paradise, Mount Aspiring National Park offers a large number of short walks that are mostly concentrated at the end of the park's access roads. Longer hikes through beautiful valleys, with ...

Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is home of the highest mountains and the longest glaciers. It is alpine in the purest sense - with skyscraping peaks, glaciers and permanent snow fields, all set ...

Your support makes all the difference. Scientists may finally have an explanation for why Mount Everest is so much taller than the other great Himalayan peaks – and still growing. Everest is ...

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why? At 8,849 meters above sea level, Everest is around 250m ...

A school in the Saskatoon suburb of Mount Royal was evacuated on Thursday after a fight between two 17-year-old students ended in a bear spray attack. Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said in a news ...

The drug-free nasal spray shielded mice from deadly form of the influenza virus. In a 3D replica of the nasal cavity, the gel-like substance enhanced capture of respiratory droplets, preventing them ...

How did Mount Everest come to be the world’s tallest mountain, towering more than 200 metres above the next two highest peaks? Geologists suggest the mountain owes part of its extra height to ...

How did Mount Everest come to be the world’s tallest mountain, towering more than 200 metres above the next two highest peaks? Geologists suggest the mountain owes part of its extra height to ...

Brigham researchers have developed a pathogen capture and neutralizing spray (PCANS), which coats the nasal cavity, capturing large respiratory droplets and serving as a physical barrier against a ...