The summit sees hurricane-force wind gusts more than 110 days of the year on average. The most powerful wind gust ever recorded by the Mount Washington Observatory was measured at 231 mph on April 21, ...

Dramatic video shows a snowboarder outrunning an avalanche on Mount Washington in New Hampshire on Tuesday, able to escape without injury. The avalanche happened in Tuckerman's Ravine. In the ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mount Washington rises rumpled and soft above the New Hampshire forests, beyond the brick towns, the old mills, and ...