Iceman's discoverer dead in Alps
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The German man who found the remains of a 5,300-year-old frozen mummy in 1991 is found dead in the Alps.
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Three skiers die after being buried in an avalanche at a resort in northern Spain.
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Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world's highest mountain, died Friday aged 88.
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The mystery of what killed Oetzi - the 5,300-year-old Iceman found in the Alps - may finally be over.
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A man buried by an avalanche for almost eight hours emerged with little more than scratches after a relative found him using a probe.
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Researchers studying Iceman, the 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps, now believe he died of head trauma, not the wound of an arrow.
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Chinese rescuers have found the body of an American climber on a remote mountain eight months after she disappeared, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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At least 2 dead as Calif. effort helps find dozens of stranded hikers caught in freak blizzard this week. BY BEN MARGOT. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.
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The German man who found the remains of a 5,300-year-old frozen mummy in 1991 has gone missing in the Alps.
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A 40-year-old British doctor has been killed after falling at least 30 metres on to rocks when he took a wrong turn while snowboarding off-piste in the French Alps
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Search teams on Sunday recovered  the body of a 27-year-old skier from a massive avalanche Friday  on an off-trail area near Park City, Utah, officials said.
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An American skier was reported missing following avalanches in western Austria that also killed three people and injured four others, police said.
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Helmut Simon, the German who discovered an intact Bronze Age mummy in an Alps glacier, has been found dead in the Austrian Alps.
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The body of one of three climbers missing for more than a week on Mount Hood in Oregon was found on Sunday, a spokesman for the Hood River County Sheriff's Department said.
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A Briton has died after reportedly crashing into a barrier while sliding down an Italian mountain on a rubber mattress.
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A San Francisco man was found dead in a mountain creek Wednesday, four days after he set out through the snowy wilderness to seek help for his wife and young daughters, stranded in a car.
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Rescuers find the body of a US man who set off on foot to find help for his family, trapped in a snowbound car in Oregon.