France’s largest glacier once looked so mighty sliding down the granite slopes of the Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s tallest peak, that early explorers struggled to find the words to capture it. “You ...

The 2019 Stella Artois Caulfield Cup (G1) winner Mer de Glace has been retired from the racetrack and will stand in Turkey. The Hisashi Shimizu-trained son of Rulership arrived in Australia to win the ...

A group of French athletes have scaled Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in France but which studies have found is melting due to global warming ©Getty Images Martin Thomas, a 2021 world canoeing ...

“Last-chance tourists” are visiting the melting Mer de Glace in Chamonix, France, in droves. A just-opened lift should make that easier. But some worry tourism is only making the problem worse. Credit ...

Scattered showers of rain were followed by stirring streams of tears for the Japanese traveling team as Mer de Glace became the second winner from the country to land the AU$5 million Stella Artois ...

The new Mer de Glace cable car above Chamonix in the Mont Blanc massif that connecs the Montenvers station with the Mer de Glace glacier was opened for the first time on Saturday 3 February 2024. The ...

Mer de Glace broke clear of the field in the home straight to streak through and win Melbourne's $5million Caulfield Cup. The Japanese import stayed strong to beat out the domestic competition as ...

His recent Caulfield Cup win (2400m) was the furthest he had been in his 18-race career but he handled that to win the race by a length over Vow And Declare and Mirage Dancer. The question Shimizu has ...

The video by Bertrand Delpierre illustrating the retreat of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Mont Blanc massif. Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in the Mont Blanc massif, continues its relentless ...

Japan has claimed a second Caulfield Cup victory in five years with Mer De Glace overcoming a slow start to win in the $5 million race. Like Admire Rakti who won for Tomoyuki Umeda in 2014, Mer De ...