The recreational arm of ski mountaineering uses light gear, but gear that skis downhill a lot better. Speed is less against the clock and more against the environment, such as making it back to the ...

A University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets ...

Climbing Season Underway in the Himalayas Expeditions to the Himalayas have begun as spring welcomes more accommodating weather to climb the world’s highest pea ...

Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see ...

Within glacial ice sheets, there are streams of ice, sometimes called ice rivers, that move much faster than the surrounding ice. If you’re having trouble imagining how ice moves inside ice, Elizabeth ...

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

But with record levels of ice melt and glacial disappearances in the Himalayan glacier count in Tibet and Hindu Kush glacier count in Xinjiang, there will be much lesser availability of freshwater ...

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 ... The Tibetan plateau is known as the world’s Third Pole for the amount of ice long locked in the high-altitude wilderness.

like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading ... 'Glacial Fracking': A Hidden Source of Arctic Greenhouse Gas Emissions Feb. 19, 2025 — Arctic glaciers are leaking significant ...