We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Swiss Re is now targeting as much as $225 million in North American earthquake and named storm retrocessional reinsurance protection from capital market investors, through its new Matterhorn Re ...

From towering mountains to golden shores, Europe’s diverse landscape is perfect for exploring by rail. And tourists are catching on. A ‘rail renaissance’ has seen increasing numbers of ...

Access to all trails will begin at the Many Glacier Hotel upper parking lot, with maps and signs indicating detours around the construction zone. Hikers should be aware that detours may add up to ...

Yala glacier in Nepal is predicted to vanish by the 2040s, due to significant reductions in area and volume. Monitoring since 1974 shows a retreat of 680m and a 36% area reduction. This glacier is ...

Welcome to Zermatt! First thing’s first – brace yourself for the ‘Toblerone Mountain’, officially known as the Matterhorn. This iconic, chocolate-bar-shaped peak is so picture-perfect it might just ...

Scientists discovered that temperate glacier ice flows differently than previously thought, requiring a change in Glen’s flow law’s stress exponent from 3 or 4 to 1.0. This adjustment suggests that ...

New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a glacier surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities.

Covering more than 3,000 square miles and eight percent of the country, it's not only Iceland's largest glacier but the largest in Europe. It's said that if Vatnajökull was spread evenly over the ...