There’s something for all types of vacationers at Santa Catalina Island, one of California’s Channel Islands, southwest of Los Angeles in the Pacific Ocean. If you’re the outdoor type, you’ll love the ...

For Kyle Gerecke and Jordan Duncan, the reasons to climb a mountain go far beyond "because it's there." As part of Summit for Someone, Gerecke and Duncan will be taking on the climbs of Mount Orizaba ...

Kyle Gerecke has been climbing mountains for 11 years, but this will be the second year he's making meaningful use of his hobby. Gerecke and fellow-climber Jordan Duncan will brave Mexico's highest ...

MOUNT ORIZABA, or Citlaltepetl, in Mexico, has been measured trigonometrically by Mr. J. T. Scovell, with the result that its height is fixed as 18,314 feet. Popocatepetl is about 700 feet lower, and ...

Kolkata: Arpita Patra, a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and a resident of Midnapore, summited Mount Pico de Orizaba — t.

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