Veteran guides share tips and tricks for avoiding or navigating the gridlock that always arises on the trail to the top ...

Lorna Simpson found the meteorite on eBay. “It was for a great price,” she told me, declining to give the exact figure, ...

With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

Legendary French alpinist Gaston Rebuffat opened countless bold new routes in the Alps and was a vital part of the first ...

Photo: Khunga Sherpa The Khumbu Icefall is a broken section of the Khumbu Glacier, low on the South ... four aluminum ladders to cross a big, open crevasse. The ladders fell as the ice collapsed.

Fiber optic cables on a Swiss glacier detected icequakes from crevasse openings, offering a powerful new method for seismic monitoring in harsh environments and potential applications in other fields ...