On Jan. 28, 2004, a freight train hauling 119 empty grain cars and three locomotives was traveling from Pasco, Wash. to Great ...

Towering snow-laden trees engulf me after hopping off the Flower Point chairlift and into out-of-bounds terrain. Eager to embark on my first journey through the backcountry, a tinge of nervousness ...

The report forecasts the Whitefish, Flathead and Swan ranges as well as portions of Glacier National Park ... pointing to various avalanche debris fields. We ski on top of one that had slid ...

The GLOF disaster had resulted in 55 casualties, with 70 people still missing and had caused extensive damage to critical ...

At Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, a cornice on a ridge above Glacier Bowl gave way ... plan to do one more search of the debris pile, then spend the day on avalanche mitigation and regrooming the ...

On snow-covered battlefields like the Himalayas, the Army wants its junior leadership to become decision-makers at the tactical level ...

In July 2016, the lower portion of a valley glacier in the Aru Range of Tibet detached and barreled into a nearby valley, killing nine people and hundreds of animals. The huge avalanche, one of the ...

"Everything felt icy and hard, with large sections of bare glacier," recalled Moeses Fiamoncini ... In Fiamoncini's video above, the avalanche debris from a serac fall looks like gigantic ice ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...