These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

Why it's incredible: The landscape looks crumpled and folded from above. Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

The landscape in this region is otherworldly, with vibrant bands that look like they were spray-painted onto the rocks. The Rainbow Mountains are located in the foothills of the rugged Qilian ...

based on an analysis of an exceptionally large data set from igneous rocks recovered from the Transantarctic Mountains, may signify a much more dynamic Antarctic landscape history than previously ...

The rocks at the core ... home was the natural landscape,” says Lindahl. Kids drew houses that were “absolutely dwarfed by nature.” Some even drew just the mountains and forests ...

High mountains with rocky cliffs are a central ... relieved of the immense weight of overlying rock. A landscape, as these pictures remind us, is made up of the inorganic as well as the organic ...

‘We designed discreet structures that incorporate the landscape, ensuring minimal disruption to the mountains.’ What makes Desert Rock compelling isn’t extravagance but restraint Studio Paolo Ferrari ...

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the ... which were upturned and creased into the landscape we see today during the initial collision between the Arabian and Eurasian ...