The highest point in the continental United States just moved. Columbia Crest, the iconic ice dome that has crowned Mount ...

Mount Rainier has lost height and its highest point has migrated, a subtle but symbolically powerful shift atop one of the ...

From snowflake to sea swell, water has a cycle—a circulatory system whose seasonal heartbeats pump snowmelt into this green and gracious land so many of us have come to call home. Yet for years, any ...

Photographer’s description: “Glacier Peak was the last Washington volcano on my list, a remote summit in the middle of the North Cascades. It truly is one of the most beautiful locations in the state.

According to the new paper, Mount Rainier’s highest point is a fraction of an inch below 14,400 feet, or 10 feet below the U.S. Geological Survey’s longstanding official measurement of 14,410 feet.

This picture shows Grinnell Glacier valley, which is northeast of Heavens Peak and McPartland Mountain. A 32-year-old climber was last seen hiking toward McPartland Mountain. Glacier National Park A ...

A warming climate has claimed three more glaciers in Washington state. These three were all on Mount Rainier, home to more ice than any American mountain south of Alaska. In June, National Park ...

A hiker vanished on a solo trip to the summit of Mount Reynolds in Glacier National Park. National Park Service A 32-year-old hiker vanished after he set out on a solo trip to climb a mountain in ...

Update, May 16: The body of Lucas Macaj was found at Mills Glacier, at about 13,000 feet elevation on the east side of Longs Peak. The initial investigation indicates he “took a significant fall,” a ...