At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel ... Back up on the mountains, snow and ice build up into glaciers that weigh on the rocks beneath and slowly push them downhill under the force of gravity.

Join Isla and Connor as they climb Ben Nevis and explore features of glaciated erosion: corries ... This is where a glacier, a massive river of flowing ice, forms. Glaciers form the corrie ...

Plate tectonics raise mountains, while erosion—driven by glaciers, rain and wind—wears them down. But there's an often-overlooked factor in this process: the rock itself. "The hypothesis is ...

Glaciers in the Himalayas melted 65% faster ... by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. The erosion of glacial slopes also heightens the likelihood of floods, landslides ...