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

The bodies of five skiers have been found on a glacier above the Swiss resort town of Zermatt, authorities said, and another ...

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

A glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps caused a massive ice and rock slide near Blatten, which had been evacuated due to ...

FIVE dead skiers have been found by rescuers near a luxury holiday resort in Switzerland. Their bodies were located one day ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

Zermatt is one of Switzerland's premier ski destinations with views of the Matterhorn. Last month heavy snowfall in the area triggered avalanches and authorities closed roads. Avalanches can occur ...

The bodies of five skiers have been recovered from an avalanche close to the Swiss-Italian border. The A-2500 ekranoplan was a marvel of Soviet engineering, designed to carry fighter jets and traverse ...

A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has devastated the village of Blatten, with millions of cubic meters of ice and ...