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

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...