Alex Chiu, 41, was recovered Wednesday morning after falling from the West Buttress climbing route onto Peters Glacier.

The storm cast this already virtually soundless vista into absolute silence—exactly what I’d come to Iceland with Tom ...

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano delivered a spectacular display on May 25 as lava fountains shot over 1,000 feet into the sky during ...

The main image on this page — above, spread out happily across the screen — is from the constantly fascinating illustrated ...

Okjökull was a dome-shaped glacier situated around the summit crater on Ok (pronounced Auk), a 3,940-foot-tall (1,200 meters) shield volcano located 44 miles (71 kilometers) northwest of Reykjavík.

“the Glacier Priest,” head of the geology department ... his seaplane landed on the lake inside the crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi.

Michelle Parks, a volcanologist with the Icelandic Meteorological Office, has been closely monitoring Askja, including submerging a temperature probe in Viti's crater lake, which measured 26.4 ...

The crater was formed when Askja ... A global concern A 2020 study identified 245 volcanoes within a 5 km radius of a glacier. Sources: ‘Global Mapping of Future Glaciovolcanism’ Global ...

the lava dome growing inside and the glacier fed by avalanches of snow and debris from the crater walls. The view on clear days features Mount Adams, Mount Rainier and Spirit Lake on the horizon.