Alpine ibex can ascend dam walls and near-vertical cliff faces that would defeat most four-legged animals, yet the precise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author hikes behind expert mountain guide Lucas Mullen along a steep ridge system. THE FOG rolls up the mountain, hiding the ...

This year’s Winter Olympics feature a new event called “skimo,” or ski mountaineering. The racing event involves periods of skiing uphill using “skins” for traction, sprinting uphill on foot, and a ...

Goats and sheep might not seem like elite fighters, but in the mountains they are surprisingly powerful survival specialists.

Ever since the day when, as a kid, I saw the profile of a Rocky Mountain goat on a Great Northern box car, I’d wanted to hunt that monarch of the rocks. Now the time had come; but, like misty dream ...

Dotted across the mountains of Southeast Alaska, white mountain goats move deftly through rugged snowscapes. Though climbing high into the mountains leaves predators below, an avalanche could pose a ...