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 ...

The little dog is being called a 'four-legged hero' after assisting with their owner's rescue in Switzerland Air Zermatt AG A Chihuahua played an integral role in the rescue of a man who was hiking on ...

The difference between a crevice and a crevasse is more than just a few letters. It’s the difference between geology and glaciology. While both terms come from the Anglo-French word crevace, to break, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A climber credits quick thinking and a lot of luck that he survived a fall into a crevasse on Mount Rainier. It happened in early August, but Graham Parrington and his team are just now talking about ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Mount Hood Climbing Rangers with the U.S. Forest Service are warning mountain climbers that a seasonal crevasse has opened up near Mount Hood’s south summit. The 30-foot ...

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 ...

An Indian mountain climber is in critical condition after falling almost 1,000 feet down a crevasse on the world’s 10th-highest mountain and surviving there for three days. Anurag Maloo, 34, was found ...

New Orleans was inundated by Mississippi River waters in the spring of 1849. This oil painting by Elizabeth Lamoisse shows Canal Street at the time of the flood. "Landscape" by Elizabeth Lamoisse, ...