At an altitude of over 8,200 meters on the flanks of K2, extreme mountaineer Kristin Harila finds a high-altitude porter who has fallen. He is hanging upside down from a fixed rope and fighting for ...

The presence of ice-mélange in the glacial bay affects ice-loss at the glacier terminus via buttressing of the glacier face, insulation from ocean heat and breaking of oceanic currents. Thus, ...

The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from image pairs measured by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) twin satellites TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X (TSX / TDX). The measurements in this ...

Starting from the country’s main gateways, such as Auckland and Christchurch, these road trips offer the best chance to ...

Popular national parks brace for record-breaking visitation as peak summer travel approaches. But away from the spotlight, a ...

These 30 photos showcase the most mind-blowingly gorgeous, almost unreal places our world has to offer. Bolivia’s Salar de ...

This study characterized three surface zones of Collins Glacier and three other zones in ice-free areas on the Fildes Peninsula, which has an area of 29.6 km². We used TerraSAR-X satellite images from ...

Researchers now say that the world needs to stay within 1°C of the pre-industrial average to avoid a catastrophic sea level ...

This in demand destination still has secrets waiting to be discovered in its wildest and most untamed places — if you know ...

PERITO GLACIER: The deep cracking sound bursting from within the ice signals the dramatic fall about to happen. Seconds later, a block of ice some 70 metres tall — the size of a 20-story ...

Ice calves off from the Perito Moreno glacier into the Lago Argentino (Argentine Lake), in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz ...