LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — The Lake Baikal ice was the real star even among a gathering of some of Russia’s hockey greats. The ice in the Siberian UNESCO World Heritage site is famously clear, ...

Two Russian and French running partners, Vladimir V. Voloshin, 44, and Laurent N. Lecamp, 41, forced off the lake in 2018, kissed the ice when they arrived this year. “It was part of our ...

ON LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — She drove 2,000 miles for this moment: Hanging out the sunroof of her white Lexus S.U.V. that glittered under the blinding sun, face to smartphone selfie camera, bass ...

Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in ...

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and ...

Pancake ice can be spotted, for example, on Lake Onega in Karelia, on the Iset River in Yekaterinburg and in Altai, as well as on Lake Baikal. Ice pancakes can reach 3 m (9.84 ft.) in diameter and ...

Ice carving in Russia goes back at least 260 years, said Viktor Chernyshev, president of the Russian Assn. of Ice, Snow and Sand Sculptors. Around 1740, Empress Anna ordered an ice palace built ...

Look back at the dramatic U.S. vs. Russia men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on Feb. 22, 1980. Known as 'Miracle on Ice,' the underdog U.S. team ...

This is the heroic moment firefighters rescue a fisherman stuck on a frozen lake in Donetsk, Russia. The 45-year-old angler was pulled from the icy waters by Russian emergency workers after the ...

A team of Russian scientists is poised to make history, drilling to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, the largest lake on the continent, which is hidden under more than 2 miles of ice. Yet the team may be ...

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia ...