Fortunately, Google Maps allows you to easily check these elevation metrics, making planning much easier. You can explore elevation not only on mountain trails but also in your neighborhood ...

“To find out whether a mountain is on top of the world, I use a model of Earth’s shape known as a digital elevation model,” he explains. “I then scan everything within a large radius of ...

Unless you live on a beach or on top of a mountain, your elevation might illude you. In Seattle where every block is a new hill, this makes predicting the amount of snow you'll get during a storm ...

Mountains are a constantly changing environment, in which plant and animal life varies with changes in elevation. Climb up a mountain and you may notice that the temperatures get colder ...