The video by Bertrand Delpierre illustrating the retreat of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Mont Blanc massif. Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in the Mont Blanc massif, continues its relentless ...

Like a one-man Google Earth, Swiss aviation pioneer Eduard Spelterini flew a gas-filled balloon from the French town of Chamonix to Switzerland on August 8, 1909 – a distance of 100 miles over the ...

This French glacier has given rise to countless works of art in the past 200 years, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Paintings, photographs and modern satellites reveal how the site has ...

I’ve skied, hiked and served as a guide on many of the world’s great glaciers. During my more than 35 years of alpine and glacial guiding and skiing, I’ve witnessed the retreat of these ...

France’s largest glacier once looked so mighty sliding down the granite slopes of the Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s tallest peak, that early explorers struggled to find the words to capture it. “You ...

The Mer de Glace in Chamonix, November 86: every summer the meltwater that runs on the surface of the glacier flows into a huge crevasse called "a mill". In 1897, Joseph VALLOT had explored it to a ...

Walter Mittelholzer, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich (left), Kieran Baxter, University of Dundee (right) The idea of rapidly melting glaciers can feel pretty abstract, especially when we see photos of areas ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged the "fight of the century" to combat climate change and preserve the environment, as he visited an iconic Alpine glacier at risk from global warming.

CHAMONIX, France (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the melting of Mont Blanc's main glacier is irrefutable proof of global warming, as he sought to burnish his ...

The video by Bertrand Delpierre illustrating the retreat of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Mont Blanc massif. Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in the Mont Blanc massif, continues its relentless ...