This year’s Winter Olympics feature a new event called “skimo,” or ski mountaineering. The racing event involves periods of skiing uphill using “skins” for traction, sprinting uphill on foot, and a ...

Pro climber Yves Gravelle asks an evolutionary biologist how his gear measures up with the highly specialized mountain goat.

At first glance, the sight seems almost impossible. Dozens of goats balance effortlessly on the branches of thorny trees, standing several metres above the ground as though they were mountain ledges.

Dotted across the mountains of Southeast Alaska, white mountain goats move deftly through rugged snowscapes. Though climbing high into the mountains leaves predators below, an avalanche could pose a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massive male alpine ibex or mountain goat (Capra ibex) showing its power standing in a summer alpine meadow against rocky slopes, ...