The easiest way to get to the glacier is to start your journey from either Interlaken or Visp, travel to Fiesch and take ...

Perhaps the most beloved activity is the Peak Walk by Tissot. This suspension bridge connects two mountain peaks and it's the only one of its kind in the world. It's also not for the faint of heart: ...

Snow and ice loss warms the land surface and air, setting off a feedback loop of further ice loss. This destabilises the ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

Along the historic Alpine Trail High Level Route from Chamonix (France) to Zermatt (Switzerland), they collected snow and ice from the glaciers at 14 locations in France, Italy, and Switzerland away ...

For thousands of years, people have survived in the Alps with traditional, straightforward food and drink. From strudel to ...

Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has driven sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades ...

A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...

The Chief Shakes Glacier, along the Stikine River. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.

Glaciers worldwide have shrunk by more than 5 per cent on average since 2000, according to the most comprehensive assessment yet. This rapid rate of melting has accelerated by more than a third in ...