MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier in Venezuela's Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.

We breached the snow line at 15,000 feet, clambering onto the glacier-laced face of Pico El Toti, high in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Cocuy. Dusted with layers of fresh snow, the moraine obscured ...

Winding along the California-Nevada border, U.S. 395 is noted for its breathtaking beauty and outdoor recreation.

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Located in the Sierra Nevada National Park in northwestern Venezuela, La Corona was once one of the country’s six tropical glaciers. The sight, as I recall it from my childhood, was magnificent.

The central Sierra Nevada trek is arduous, over 16 rugged miles with 4,750 feet of elevation gain. The crew hauled several pounds of wax for mold-making, plus multiple stoves to melt the wax.

The iconic, glacier-carved features of Yosemite Valley appeared sometime during the past 50 million years, when Sierra Nevada granite was first exposed, but geologists have not been able to ...

For over 75 years, the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, perched 7,000 feet atop Donner Pass, has been studying the Sierra Nevada snowpack. Established in 1946 by the U.S. Weather Bureau and Army ...