After spending six grueling days on Mount Baker’s Coleman Glacier, honing his ice climbing skills, Wozniak has discovered the perfect companion-CheeseButta® I’m excited to continue exploring the ...
The frozen world is so essential to life on Earth that glaciers are often considered “canaries in the coal mine.” When these layers of dense ice and snow that have built up over centuries begin to ...
Oh, thank God, my whole body exclaimed. After a few swings, the razor-sharp pick I clutched lodged firmly into a cascading frozen waterfall. Shards of ice exploded from the point of contact onto my ...
SITKAGI BLUFFS — While paddling a glacial lake complete with icebergs and milky blue water, I dipped my left hand, then tasted my fingers. Salty. That was a surprise to me, thirsty there on the edge ...
Catalina Shirley competes in the 2019 Ice Climbing World Tour in Denver. Credit: Levi Harrell / UIAA There’s forty feet of ice towering above Catalina Shirley. The Lafayette resident is moments away ...
Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79° N-Glacier is losing. According to measurements conducted by the Alfred Wegener ...
This is the moment a huge chunk of ice broke off a glacier and plunged into the water on the Vallunaraju mountain in Peru on April 13, forcing climbers in the middle of a training exercise to escape ...
Laboratory experiments designed to deform ice at its pressure-melting temperature were like grabbing a bagel at the top and the bottom, then twisting the two halves to smear the cream cheese in the ...
The Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina was previously considered stable. What was once considered the most stable glacier in the Patagonia region is experiencing ice loss at rates far greater than ...
Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79 N-Glacier is losing. According to recent measurements, the thickness of the ...