A legendary handgun hunter stalks a mountain goat with just his Colt Python in .357 Magnum in Washington State.

A recent paper reported avalanches killed between 23% and 65% of all the collared animals that had died during the 17 years biologists had followed them.

New research from the University of Alaska Southeast shows the scale of mountain goat mortality from avalanches for the first time.

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine. By Lesley Evans Ogden Mountain goats are high-elevation daredevils, learning to balance upon the steepest of rocky edifices soon after they are born ...

Where you find mountain goats, you find wilderness. We humans enjoy many choices for recreating and trammeling America’s wildland heritage. Grizzly bears, lynx, wolverines, and mountain goats do ...

While scientists have long suspected that this life on the edge was risky, they have not really understood the extent to which avalanches affect mountain goats, and whether they instinctively shun ...