On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten entirely. A massive ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of ...

Four rock climbers fell several hundred feet while ... A couloir is a sheer gully that runs down a mountain. After the fall, Tselykh lost consciousness. Pitons are oftentimes left in walls by ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

It had been hours since the fall. Over the course of the next several hours, he extricated himself from the mess of ropes, gear and debris and trekked over rough terrain of rock and snow — with ...

Three people died and a fourth was injured while rock climbing in the North Cascades ... Sheriff's Office told the New York Times that the fall was about 200 feet down a sheer rock face.

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed this week is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in ...

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month ...