Here are seven key factors to consider when navigating in winter. For detail each, click the links or scroll down the guide.

The higher up you go into the hills and mountains the more snow you are going to find. The temperatures above 1000 feet ...

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Land Information Minister and Associate Defence Minister Chris Penk will travel to Antarctica this week to see New Zealand’s ...

Our scientists carry out globally significant research in one of the most challenging environments in the world, alongside ...

Could the Pre-Christian and Christian historical sites at Finner in Bundoran, Co Donegal illuminate a connection to the stars ...

The Gulf of America and Mount McKinley will soon appear on Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s decision to rename the two topographical ... outside of the United States, Google Maps will ...

My wife and I enjoy hiking off trail and for our bushwhacking adventures, we use a paper topographic map, a compass and a handheld GPSR.

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

The wire service’s reporters have been barred from White House events. Next time, it could be you.

The system is being used as an aid to VIU students, but it has also proven to be a handy interactive outreach tool at science ...