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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Officials on the scene said that rain was the likely cause of the landslide in the Barboursville Park. A large rock and trees broke loose and slid down a large hill causing the rock to fall and ...

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 ...

according to authorities The fall was reportedly due to "anchor failure" as the group of four was rock climbing The three victims were pronounced dead at the scene; the fourth, who survived the ...

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 glacier collapses around the world ...