The city of Aomori, located in Aomori Prefecture, in the far north of Japan’s main island, Honshu, is the snowiest city in ...

Yamagata Prefecture is famous for the yamabushi of Dewa Sanzan, and the snow monsters and ski slopes of Mount Zao. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. With their new fully-guided tours linking ...

“That snow has nothing to stick to,” said Amy Cotter, a weather observer and education specialist with the Mount Washington Observatory at the peak at 6,288 feet. “That snow gets whipped up ...

Bukaty, File) This image provided by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department shows a snow cat heading ... along the cog railway during a rescue mission, on Mount Washington, N.H., Sunday ...

Two experienced hikers were rescued after an hourslong ordeal in which they became stranded in waist-deep snow and whiteout conditions on New Hampshire's challenging Mount Washington The two ...

The two friends had hiked New Hampshire's challenging Mount Washington trail a month ... They were in waist-deep snow and whiteout conditions. They were lost on the tallest mountain in the ...