In this undated family handout, Margaret Payne poses for a photo on the stairs of her home in Sutherland, Scotland. Payne, the 90-year-old grandmother who launched an epic climb to raise money for ...

For most of her 93 years, Joy Ryan had never seen a mountain. But last month, the grandmother from Ohio peered up at the highest peak in Africa, the latest adventure on her social calendar. Her ...

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. — A man has been charged after a hit-and-run in Kings Mountain left a grandmother dead and her son hurt on Mother’s Day, police said. Officers responded at after 8 p.m. to North ...

Brad Ryan paused to take in the scene before him: mountains with perfect peaks, a lush valley and an endless expanse of untouched Alaskan wilderness. What awed him most, though, was not the Arctic ...