Thrust skyward by Earth's forces between 40 and 70 million years ago, then sculpted by three glacial episodes, the Rocky Mountains are new in geologic terms, and form one of the world's longest ranges--stretching almost unbroken from Alaska to...
The Haute Route--aka the High Route or Mountaineers' Route--traverses the French and Swiss Alps. It was conceived as a summer mountaineering route in the mid-nineteenth century by members of the English Alpine Club. Though originally called "The...