Due to an extremely dry winter, the mountain’s deep crevasses are prematurely exposed ... While the lack of snow improves the risk of avalanche, it reduces the climbing faces to sheer ice.

“We were very happy with ourselves for summiting the mountain ... through melting layers of snow. Then I stopped and I was at the bottom of the hole. Hanging in a crevasse.” ...

Fiber optic cable deployed on a Swiss glacier has detected the seismic signals of crevasses opening in the ice, confirming ...

JASPER – An unroped skier was badly injured after falling about 20 metres into a crevasse on the Athabasca Glacier at the ...

This season’s primary concern centers around untypical exposed crevasses due ... “I have never seen the mountain in such bad conditions.” While the lack of snow reduces avalanche risk ...

Vadium Druelle of France fell into a crevasse on the icy mountain while trying to speed ... While the lack of snow improves the risk of avalanche, it reduces the climbing faces to sheer ice.