The glacier’s retreat has been ongoing, but scientists believe within a few years it will be separated from Mendenhall Lake.

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting – yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers ...

Ice cores are a vertical column of ice extracted from glaciers and ice-sheets; they hold records of what the planet was like ...

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

When viewed from space, a very rude glacier in Antarctica was caught stealing ice from its neighbor as it melted. In a new study published in the journal The Cryosphere, researchers from England’s ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Extreme Tourism Market By Adventure Type (Mountain Climbing, Skydiving, Cave Exploration, Scuba Diving, and Others), Type of Traveler (Solo, Friends ...

Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before. The ...

The 45-year-old man, later identified as Matias Augusto Travizano, was part of a climbing group with two others ... leaving them "stranded on an ice sheet at the northern tip of Wintun Glacier around ...

A hiker who summited Mt. Shasta earlier this month lost track of the trail on his way down and slid 2,000 feet to his death.

Matias Augusto Travizano of San Francisco and Argentina was descending the Wintun Glacier, part of the Clear Creek climbing route ... two of the climbers wandered off the trail and onto an ice sheet ...

Shepherds have been crossing the Alps with their animals for 6,000 years. That means climbing 3,000 meters in altitude, all while crossing rivers and a glacier.