The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

He was delighted last year when the Belfast Telegraph headlined a front-page feature about his research team: QUEEN’S DUNG BOFFINS GET TO BOTTOM OF HANNIBAL ALPS RIDDLE IN PIECE OF 2000-YEAR-OLD ...

At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...

On May 28, a massive glacier gave way and destroyed a village in the Swiss Alps after a rockfall caused it to fail under ...

Climbers alerted local authorities after finding abandoned skis near the summit of Rimpfischhorn on Saturday. A helicopter ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of ...

Hannibal led his troops through the Alps in 218 BCE, catching the Romans off guard. What’s more, he brought a contingent of war elephants ready for battle. These elephants were trained to instil ...

Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two ...