The Altra Mont Blanc Carbon is a zero-drop trail shoe with a Carbitex carbon plate that serves a dual purpose as a stone guard and stability feature. It has a sticky Vibram Megagrip outsole and ...

The dynamics at work on Mont Blanc are multiple, Ravanel and his colleagues have ascertained. Glacier crevasses are ever more prevalent as the ice shrinks and shifts. Summit ridges are narrower as ...

Aosta, September 24 - A radar system is being installed to constantly monitor a glacier on the Italian side of Mont Blanc is in danger of collapsing. Local authorities are taking precautionary ...

Icelandic police say no-one is missing in an ice cave that collapsed, killing one person and injuring another. The cave, located at the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, collapsed while a group of 25 ...

The retreat is such that the Compagnie du Mont-Blanc had to set up a new cable car in February to reach the increasingly distant glacier. However, it's still necessary to descend 150 steps to ...

Last autumn, another section of ice from the Planpincieux glacier threatened to collapse, prompting road closures. Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps at over 4,800 metres.

The researchers said they are concerned that scientists have underestimated the likelihood of the glacier’s collapse. The Thwaites Glacier is larger than the state of Florida, so the potential ...

Antartica's Thwaites Glacier is also known as the "Doomsday Glacier" because it could greatly contribute to sea level rise if it collapses. And new evidence suggests that's exactly what's happening.

Following this, the Mont ... around Mont Blanc, which underwent numerous days of rapid melting. These high temperatures, combined with a lack of precipitation, also prevented the glacier from ...