Himalayan slopes at risk: High mountains face rock-ice avalanche risk as temperatures rise; scientists call for early warning systems ...

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers.

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

The expression goes “everyone has their own Everest to climb,” but one Illinois man took it literally and embarked on a<a ...

The Birch Glacier on the mountain, which had been holding back a mass of rock near the peak, gave way — sending an avalanche into the valley village ... with 23 out of 24 glaciers in the central ...

Klára Kolouchová, the first Czech woman to climb Earth's three highest peaks, has died in an accident on Nanga Parbat ...

A central Illinois man climbed out of the regions corn and soy fields to summit the tallest mountain in the world — with his ...

Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.

Stability and risk are normally contradictory terms, but the Colorado Avalanche’s recent big decision ties them together.

A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley, officials said Wednesday — just days after a climber fell 3,000 feet to his death on North America's tallest peak ...