Imagine looking down at your feet as you cross a crevasse on an aluminum ladder. As you turn your head left or right, you can see along the crevasse in either direction, and you can see the ...

Fiber optic cable deployed on a Swiss glacier has detected the seismic signals of crevasses opening in the ice, confirming ...

Hanging in a crevasse.” A crevasse is a deep ... mean it was easy to be stuck down there — the climber told CNN, “It’s like being in a ice shower down there. The glacier is melting on ...

While the lack of snow improves the risk of avalanche, it reduces the climbing faces to sheer ice. This makes setting a route around huge crevasses and imposing seracs difficult and requires ...

While the lack of snow reduces avalanche risk, it marginalizes the climbing faces to sheer ice. This makes setting a route around huge crevasses and imposing seracs difficult, and requires more ...

In 2015, pro climber Will Gadd made the first-ever ice climb up Niagara Falls, setting up his line on the American side of the falls on Terrapin Point. Back in 2015, Gadd made the first-ever ice ...

Hewitt estimated the man had been stuck on a ledge deep in the ice for more than four ... riding in similar terrain wear a climbing harness and have a crevasse rescue kit with them.

Expeditions to the Himalayas have begun as spring welcomes more accommodating weather to climb the world’s highest peaks. The weather window has just opened as the jet stream makes its annual ...