To Anchorage, Alaska resident Helander, heading underground is the only way to survive punishing winds during exploratory climbing trips. While trudging back after a climb, with 70-mph winds lashing ...

The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South ...

With towering, crystalline halls of frozen water, ice caves are among the most visually arresting formations in nature. They’re just a pain to explore given their often inaccessible locations and the ...

Fine soil particles once encased in ice were discovered in a cave about 20,000 years after the frozen sheet melted. This sediment is significant both for what it tells us about the past and what it ...

Paul Wilcox, a geologist at the University of Innsbruck, has discovered the first land-based evidence of meltwater pulses from the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the last ice age, about 20,000 years ago ...

Paul Wilcox descends into Devil’s Canopy Cave on Prince of Wales Island. An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history. A small ...

A sign at the trailheads of paths on the north and south sides of the creek advise hikers to be careful around the ice cave. (Tim Ellis/KUAC) The Castner Glacier ice cave off the Richardson Highway ...

Paul Wilcox explores caves in a temperate rainforest area on Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska for their paleoclimatic significance. Paul Wilcox, a geologist at the University of Innsbruck, ...

Steve Lewis, one of Alaska's foremost cavers, will speak at Oregon State University at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, about his experiences measuring and mapping caves in southeast Alaska. The free talk is ...

A single-file line of Chinese tourists, dressed in spotless white, shuffled in close to the frozen glacial river. They tramped in silence, almost 30 strong. Not far ahead of them, but still within my ...

Genetic analysis links 3,000-year-old bone found in cave to modern Alaska Natives. The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ...