The beam from my headlamp scans the rock above as I search ... climbers on this magnificent wall — the 1,800-foot north face of the Cima Grande (9,840 feet) in the Dolomites of northern Italy.

This article was first published by Climbing.com. In the early afternoon of Sunday, July 3, a massive chunk of ice and rock broke free from the glacier atop Italy ... in the Alps,” he said.

A section of Italy’s biggest Alpine glacier gave way last Sunday ... As of today, we have no indications to make us think more people could be involved,” he said. The search operation continued, ...

Ten people have died in accidents in the Italian ... clear over the Alps on Sunday but the low temperature had created a thin layer of ice over paths and snow slopes, making climbing and skiing ...

which dominates the Alps at 4,807 metres tall, is officially closed. But conditions have deteriorated so much that only the most experienced climbers are able to reach it in late July, according ...

Heat wave makes conditions at the Alps' highest mountain treacherous for climbing Climbers aiming ... who bears these costs,” according to CNN. Italian officials in the town of Courmayeur ...

The Alps’ glaciers are on track for their highest mass losses in at least 60 years of record keeping, data shared exclusively ...

But I quickly caught the climbing bug and for much of the past ... Why not do all, or most of, the big climbs in the Dolomites and the Italian Alps over the course of a week.

You can easily imagine the final results after summer will be an extensive loss of glacier coverage in the Italian Alps,' said Marco Giardino, vice president of the Italian Glaciological Committee.

Canazei, Italy ... of experts and search dogs to the lower part of the site on Thursday, when the weather is forecast to be clearer. Parts of the mountain will remain shut off to tourists to allow ...

Way up in the snowy Alps, the border between Switzerland and Italy has shifted due to a melting glacier, putting the location of an Italian mountain lodge in dispute. The borderline runs along a ...