Before trailblazing Japanese photographer George Masa captured the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, where did his love of ...

At the start of every week we talk about the most fascinating stories in the news and what they say about the Pacific Northwest. We call it Front Page.

The southern portion of the Japanese Alps also stretches into Shizuoka prefecture. Today more than ten percent of the land in ...

Jiri Richter, 51 of Seattle, and Benjamin Watson, 35 of Seattle, were the men found dead on Jan. 20 near Wilson Glacier, ...

According to the National Park Service, search and rescue operations at Mount Rainier National Park concluded with the recovery of two climbers from the Wilson Glacier area at about 9,600 feet in ...

In back-to-back tragedies, two women in their 70s were killed by a falling tree in Olympic National Forest and 2 climbers ...

"Highpointers" are people with a quirky goal: summiting the highest point in each of the 50 states, from Mr. McKinley in Alaska (elevation: 20,310 feet above sea level), to Florida's Britton Hill ...

The road to Paradise has ostensibly gotten easier to climb. After three consecutive seasons of limited openings at the gate to the state’s highest-elevation road-accessible winter wonderland, Mount ...

Mount Rainier, along with four other ice-capped mountains in the contiguous U.S., has shrunk since about 1980, said a study published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. Four of the ...

The Pacific Northwest’s highest peak is a little less lofty than it used to be, according to a new study. Mount Rainier is now 10 feet shorter than it was in the 1990s, according to a study in the ...

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. - A new study has revealed that Mount Rainier is experiencing a significant reduction in size due to shifting climate patterns. The findings, published in the "Arctic Antarctic ...

The summit has likely declined more than 20 feet, the study said. Mount Rainier, the active stratovolcano located in Washington state, is likely shrinking due to climate change, according to new ...