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 ...

Crevasses often appear where a glacier scrapes against uneven valley walls or turns a corner. Ice flows slowly at the edges but moves progressively faster toward the center, a pattern that causes ...

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 ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canadian professional freeskier Dave Treadway died Monday after he fell about 100 feet into a crevasse while skiing with a group of people near Rhododendron Mountain in British Columbia. He was 34.

KATMANDU, Nepal - An American climber said he fell into a crevasse on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal but managed to crawl to his tent despite broken ribs and an arm before being rescued the next ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A climber from Japan is presumed dead following a fall into a crevasse near Mount Hunter in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, officials said. The park, in a statement, ...

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 ...