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WEST GLACIER, Mont. — Day hikers will have an easier way to access Many Glacier Valley during the Swiftcurrent area construction this summer. Shuttle service runs July 1 to Sept. 21. Shuttle ...
One of the most spectacular drives in the world is lined with glaciers you can see ... From the warmth of your car, you can see the Crowfoot Glacier, the frozen Bow Lake, and Tangle Falls, an ...
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside ... in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish ...
Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further evacuations.
From Glacier's high country vantage point, visitors are treated to panoramic views of the Yosemite Valley, including landmarks like Yosemite Falls and Half Dome. Unlike many lookout points in ...
the Valais local government said the Birch Glacier had collapsed in near-entirety above Blatten village. Ice and rock several dozens of yards thick and about a mile long now lie in the valley.
In 1908, Abner and Mary Alberta “Bert” Sprague built a summer cabin in Glacier Basin ... navigating past many meadows in this valley, and up to Bear Lake. At Bear Lake, follow the eastern ...
The danger of flooding and further erosion remains high around the Alpine village of Blatten, which saw 90 per cent of the town destroyed on Wednesday when the Birch glacier partially collapsed.
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk ...
and this mass caused the glacier to really push forward — and everything just went down the valley," she explained. The unstable mountain face and thousands of tonnes of rocky debris has made it ...
Its 300 residents had been evacuated earlier in May after part of the mountain behind the Birch Glacier began to crumble ... further along the Lonza Valley, to prepare for possible evacuation ...