Mt. Ranier, which is south of Seattle, is the "most heavily glaciated peak in the contiguous United States," according to the National Park Service One mountain climber is feeling fortunate to have ...

A tourist has died after he fell into a mountain crevasse in Peru. Ivan Pesl, from Slovenia, died on July 7, as he was walking to the Huantsán mountain of the Andes in Peru, local newspaper Perú.21 ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far ...

Crevasses often appear where a glacier scrapes against uneven valley walls or turns a corner. Ice flows slowly at the edges but moves progressively faster toward the center, a pattern that causes ...

Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner, who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days ago, while exiting the Agassiz Ice Cap on Canada’s Ellesmere Island, Vincent Colliard fell into a crevasse. He shared ...

Canadian professional freeskier Dave Treadway died Monday after he fell about 100 feet into a crevasse while skiing with a group of people near Rhododendron Mountain in British Columbia. He was 34.

KATMANDU, Nepal - An American climber said he fell into a crevasse on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal but managed to crawl to his tent despite broken ribs and an arm before being rescued the next ...

Three Sherpa climbers were missing Wednesday after they fell into a deep crevasse on a treacherous section of Mount Everest just above the base camp, a Nepalese mountaineering official said. They fell ...