Two skiers have pulled off a breathtakingly audacious first descent on an insanely steep line on New Zealand’s tallest mountain ... winds that turned snow into ice forced the pair to retreat ...

For many of New Zealand's mountain peaks, a glacier was a pathway to the top, she said, but as the ice shrank in length and thickness this was disappearing. "We get these rocky walls exposed ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...