The Grand Egyptian Museum is set to open in its entirety — from pyramid views to Tutankhamun’s treasures, here’s what you can ...

Jim Morrison, a 50-year-old American skier, dedicated his historic descent down Mount Everest to the memory of his late ...

An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...

Jim Morrison has become the first to ski not only the terrifying Everest Superdirect route, but the first to ski the entire ...

Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

When Genghis Khan died in 1227, he left behind a united Mongolia, a vast empire, and an unsolved mystery—his final resting ...

Morrison skied a link up that included the fearsome and fantastical Hornbein Couloir, a narrow slot of snow that slices down ...

It smells of manure and is stained by tobacco juice. It's where tough men dance to keep loose and a few men say their last ...