Bodies of five climbers found on Russia’s highest mountain
‘No time to waste’: Greece bids for Mount Olympus to be included on Unesco list of world heritage sites
Experience
Experience: I hunt for missing hikers in remote mountains
Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
Novice climber rescued after surviving 1,500ft fall down California mountain
Opinion
Some question why young women should climb mountains but hiking gives me freedom
Mohsina Gufran
June 2026
Country diary
Country diary 1976: I attained nirvana on a scorching day in the fells
Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says
Terrawatch
Could mountains be key to unlocking hydrogen’s potential?
Mount Everest, a climber known only as ‘Green Boots’, and the mission to solve a 30-year mystery
May 2026
Melbourne teenager Bianca Adler becomes youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest
Other lives
Steve Lismore obituary
April 2026
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
Logging, murder and money: can Mexico’s ancient forests be saved from the cartels?
In the Sierra Tarahumara, gangs ‘disappear’ those who resist their lucrative illegal tree-felling operations
March 2026
The Guardian picture essay
The Scottish avalanche forecasters – photo essay
Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols the snow with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has for several decades published a vital daily avalanche forecast for mountain areas
February 2026
Weatherwatch
Frozen in time: Antarctic ice cave to be used to save melting glacier samples
Ice Memory Foundation’s specially dug ‘sanctuary’ offers storage for cores, which hold thousands of years of history
January 2026
‘It’s unforgiving’: California park officials grapple with recent deaths on Mount Baldy
College freshman identified as one of three hikers found dead on California’s Mount Baldy
December 2025
The aftermath
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage
Country diary
Country diary: Green shoots in the ancient forest
Glen Einich, Cairngorms: A wintry walk in the Rothiemurchus woodland is always glorious. To see some of its barer expanses starting to recover tops it off
