Rapidly receding, the Athabasca Glacier draws visitors from around the world. The glacier is part of the massive Columbia Icefield, which divides southern Jasper and northern Banff, and is easily ...

The Icefields Parkway linking Jasper and Banff national parks in western Canada is a star. It’s a high-altitude 138-mile roadway along the spine of the Canadian Rockies with towering mountains, ...

My world is melting. Take, for example, the time I went to climb ice on Mt. Kilimanjaro and my map of the ice cap was wrong. In the 20 years since the map was made, half of the glaciers had vanished.

Researchers say the 12-month vertical melt-rate observed on the Athabasca Glacier earlier this month "blows out" the previous record high melt-rate. "Over the last ten years this glacier's been ...

Three people died and 24 were injured after their sightseeing bus rolled over in Canada’s Jasper National Park, authorities and tour officials said Sunday. The all-terrain "Ice Explorer" was on its ...

My world is melting. Take for example the time I went to climb ice on Kilimanjaro and my map of the ice cap was wrong. In the 20 years since the map was made, half of the glaciers had vanished. The ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Michael Rex is about to guide his 4325th excursion on the glacier. He claims to keep count. Then again, almost everything that comes out ...

Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 40-54 (16 pages) Little Ice Age moraines at Athabasca and Dome glaciers, Alberta, Canada, were dated using dendrogeomorphic techniques and ...

Will Gadd has climbed mountains and ice columns around the world, but his latest adventure saw him tackle something completely different. The Canmore ice climber and a team of scientists from the ...