Photos show the mysterious ancient objects that mountaineers are finding on the Alps' melting glaciers

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archaeologist in yellow shirt holds ancient rusty horseshoe in plastic bag beside a cart with a grey bin holding a large black trashbag in a large basement storage room
Romain Andenmatten shows a horseshoe found on a melting glacier.

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A 33-year-old man turned a Japanese farmhouse into a mountainside Airbnb retreat for $25,000 — here's how he did it

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a man standing in a farmhouse with his arms crossed
Xian Jie Lee runs an Airbnb business in rural Japan.

Xian Jie Lee

The best landscape photos of the year

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El Chalten, Patagonia.
El Chalten, Patagonia.

Matt Meisenheimer/The 10th International Landscape Photographer of the Year

I took a new job in a remote location after my divorce. There aren't many people to date, but I'm happy staying single.

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Woman wearing red shirt, khaki pants, and backpack standing on mountain looking at view of lake
Author not pictured.

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13 mummified mice in Mars-like environments atop 20,000-foot volcanoes have stumped scientists, who don't know why mice would climb to such harsh heights

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a mummified mouse is a mangled ball of fur with bones poking out on a white surface next to a ruler showing it's about two inches long
One of the 13 mangled, mummified mice that researchers found on top of Andean volcanoes.

Marcial Quiroga-Carmona

2 women chasing a climbing record across 14 mountains both died in avalanches on their last peak

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Mount Shishapangma
Mount Shishapangma in southern Tibet, China.

Photographer: Reinhard Goldmann 50829 Cologne, Germany

Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. Scientists warn climate change could make more mountains crumble.

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A view of the partially collapsed Fluchthorn mountain.
The grey middle peak shown here of Mt. Fluchthorn partially collapsed earlier this year.

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