We’ve come a long way in understanding the processes that lead mountain ranges to form away from the edges of continents. And it still amazes me that all this started with an awe-inspiring view ...

This is a corrie - an armchair shaped hollow found high on mountains where glaciers form. Layers of snow compact into ice and start moving down the mountain. As the ice moves, it plucks rock from ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new ...