MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France – While much of the world worries about how to stop sea levels from rising, engineers in this corner of France want to spend $260 million to do just the opposite: raise the ...

correctionAn earlier version of this story had an image of a fort near Saint-Malo rather than the city of Saint-Malo. This version has been corrected. Mont Saint-Michel draws more than 3 million ...

A tour guide demonstrates how to get out of quicksand during a walk across Mont Saint Michel, a rocky tidal island in France. Don’t panic! You won’t sink in – at least not all the way. Real ...

The island abbey of Mont St-Michel, one of the top pilgrimage sites of Christendom through the ages, floats like a mirage on the horizon, just off the Norman coast of France. For more than a thousand ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...

This French island has a shore of quicksand. Following is a transcript of the video. Learn to escape quicksand. It's off the coast of this French island. Test yours kills on the banks of Mont Saint ...