While the lack of snow improves the risk of avalanche, it reduces the climbing faces to sheer ice. This makes setting a route ...

A crevasse is a deep crack in a glacier ... The glacier is melting on you.” Man Whose Mom Died Climbing World’s Second Highest Peak Is Missing on Pakistan’s ‘Killer Mountain’ His ...

Sherpas on Annapurna have located the bodies of two Sherpas who died in an avalanche on Tuesday, thanks to the Recco ...

While the lack of snow reduces avalanche risk, it marginalizes the climbing faces to sheer ice. This makes setting a route around huge crevasses and imposing seracs difficult, and requires more ...

"He knows I carry that stuff with me." Hewitt said he grabbed an extra climbing harness, a thermos of warm water and a crevasse rescue kit that included pulleys, ropes and other climbing gear to ...

While the lack of snow improves the risk of avalanche, it reduces the climbing faces to sheer ice. This makes setting a route around huge crevasses and imposing seracs difficult and requires ...