A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

The Basics • Vehicle reservations are required for the west entrance of Going-to-the-Sun Road and the North Fork entrance ...

Poor weather conditions prevented search and rescue from sending a team to locate and recover Chiu's body until early in the ...

Athletes from Flathead, Glacier, Whitefish, and Columbia Falls closed their seasons with championships, personal bests, and ...

Alex Chiu, 41, was recovered Wednesday morning after falling from the West Buttress climbing route onto Peters Glacier.

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire ...

Mountaineering rangers in Alaska recovered the body of a Seattle man who died after falling 3,000 feet (about 900 meters) from a climbing route on Mount McKinley. Alex Chui's body was transferred to ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden force behind the rapid melting of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—powerful wind jets known as low-level jets. These fast-moving winds, intensified by polar storms, are ...

Alex Chiu, 41, was climbing along the West Buttress route with two others when he fell. His body was recovered two days later ...

Glaciers are some of the most powerful natural features on Earth, but climate change is causing them to melt at an alarming ...

The conference built on the momentum of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP), declared by the UN General ...