Colorado's 14ers see over a quarter million hikers annually - in a low traffic year. If you're planning to hike one this ...

May 26, 2025 In 2024, four infants died in Switzerland as a result of maltreatment. May 26, 2025 The Birch Glacier above ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

How should backcountry skiers think about avalanche danger during corn season and beyond? A few weeks ago I set off to ski ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

A huge mass of rock and ice in the Swiss Alps sent plumes of dust skyward on Wednesday near a village that authorities had ...

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

However, finding about about meteorological conditions and snow cover that might be triggered may help to prevent avalanches. "It is possible to give a certain degree of advanced warning about the ...