Spelunker's 41-year-old remains to surface
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Forty-one years ago, rescuers couldn&#039;t get the body of James Mitchell out of the cave where he died. Workers dynamited the cave, sealed it with rocks, placed a memorial headstone above it and left him dangling in his harness, 60 feet above the cave floor.
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The creator of Lost and the new horror film for the YouTube age, talks with TIME
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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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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Area being scoured for missing adventurer is expanded to 10,000 square miles.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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Archaeologists have discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â
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Vienna - The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier was found dead in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities said.
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VIENNA Austrian officials have recovered the body of a missing German climber who won fame when he found a mummified 5,300-year-old human body in the Alps in 1991.
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Scientists reconstruct a chunk of DNA from the genome of a Neanderthal man who lived 38,000 years ago.
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BULUNKOU, China  - Wearing an NBA sweatshirt and a Mickey Mouse cap, 13-year-old Mingbayi Abdubaki plays beside the mountainous highway to Pakistan with a battery-powered earth digger he built himself from scrap.
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Work has begun to restore a hut used by the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton during his attempt to reach the South Pole nearly a century ago.
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A previously unknown creature has been roaming the Kenai Peninsula's Mystery Hills &#151; or at least its alpine rock crevices.
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MIAMI - An 80-year-old diver spent 18 hours holding on to a floating buoy in the cold, rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean before he was found by a relative Sunday during an exhaustive search off the Florida Keys.
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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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A man is found alive weeks after getting lost inside a labyrinthine cave network in south-west France.