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Jamie Smith built up and ran the Snow Factor centre in Braehead, Glasgow, and an ice climbing wall in Kinlochleven, Argyll, ...

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Ulaanbaatar, January 27, 2025 /MONTSAME/. The second round of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup was held in Saas-Fee, the Swiss Confederation, on January 23-25, 2025. The Ice Climbing World Cup ...

ICE, a key U.S. immigration agency, has ramped up deportation efforts under the Trump administration, including using military planes and expanding enforcement near schools and churches ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

In a post to X, formerly Twitter, the weather service said patchy black ice could form "along and north of I-10" into Southeast Georgia. The warning comes as sub-freezing temperatures — and even ...

A FOOD campaigner has said a Scottish ice cream brand’s move to Yorkshire is “extremely disappointing”. We told on Tuesday how Cream o’ Galloway, founded in 1994, will move to a manufacturing site ...

Sometimes reliable information is all that’s needed to help immigrants avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and anyone can help reduce the unnecessary panic that arrest ...

A POPULAR Scottish ice cream is moving production 150 miles away from its original site to North Yorkshire. Cream o' Galloway, which was launched in 1994, was bought by Brymor a year ago. It continued ...

so that we can service our valued customers in Scotland, Northumberland and Cumbria. "We have also moved the ice cream parlour offering to within The Cocoabean Company. "This means all local ...

Climate change exacerbates the waste problem by melting snow and ice, exposing previously buried garbage and human remains. These pollutants contaminate the watershed, posing significant health risks ...