A year later, a heli-ski guide scouting an area for clients died when an avalanche carried his body nearly 1500 feet (457 meters) down a mountain, Alaska State Troopers said at the time.

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

One climber has died and another has been seriously injured after falling 1,000 feet off a steep Alaska mountain in Denali ... navigating a mix of steep rock, ice, and snow. Another climbing ...