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 ...

When we think of glaciers, polar bears and penguins often come to mind. Finches are more associated with backyards than icy ...

VIENNA -- Austrian emergency teams have rescued a German mountaineer who spent five days in a deep glacier crevice after slipping. Officials say the man was found in the 100-foot-deep gap Thursday ...

Annual glacial outburst floods on Juneau’s Mendenhall River will continue for years to ... taking thousands of overlapping photos to capture every crack and crevice on the surface of the basin.

Mike Price died on June 21, 1992, careening 80 feet into a glacial crevice on Mount Rainier. He was trying to save his friend and climbing partner, Jim Davidson, who had fallen through a snow bridge.

Gordon Hamilton was a world-renowned glaciologist at the University of Maine. He studied the relationship between ice sheets and oceans. He died last month in Antarctica when his snowmobile ...

UTTARKASHI: A trekker from West Bengal died and two others were seriously injured after falling into the crevice on a glacier along Chimloga-Chitkul trek near Uttarkashi-Himachal Pradesh border ...

We believe that they fell in a crevice and they died in this crevice. Seventy years ago, the glacier was quite stable or even growing a little bit. The last 10, 20 years, the glacier lost in size.

More Researchers shed light on accident 88 years ago . This content was published on Feb 13, 2014 On March 4, 1926, four young men failed to return from their ski tour on the Aletsch Glacier in ...