The Alps, one of the most iconic mountain ranges in the world, stretch across eight countries in south-central Europe. This extensive mountain system spans approximately 1,200 kilometres in a crescent ...

Warming temperatures are wreaking havoc at elevation, upending the Winter Olympics and the tourism industry and imperiling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olympic and World Champion biathlete Laura Dahlmeier shows off her medals. The top German athlete won a total of seven world ...

A French skier has just become the first person to climb and ski every mountain in the Alps higher than 4,000m (12,000 feet). After chipping away at the project for 15 years, Vivian Bruchez scaled the ...

Tumbling from a height of 422 meters, Grande Cascade de Gavarnie (or, in English, “Gavernie Falls”), located within Pyrénées National Park, is one of the tallest waterfalls in Europe. The Pyrenees ...

While the Alps is known primarily as a winter playground, the mountain range is emerging as a summer destination. New and discounted rail links across Europe are making the peaks an attractive no-fly ...

The glaciers of the Alps are receding, retreating, even collapsing. Why is it happening? What is the impact on those who love ...

The Best of the Alps, a tourism promotion consortium founded more than 40 years ago, recently came to town to remind American travel writers that this is where skiing began over 100 years ago and that ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 45, No. 2 (May 2025), pp. R27-R40 (14 pages) The European Alps are surrounded by highly urbanized areas located close to fragile mountain landscapes. The ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 26, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. A bus filled with widows of war and their children left Ukraine bound for the Austrian ...

"There is no finer place to soak in the atmosphere of winter sport than the Bahnhof Restaurant at Kleine Scheidegg, a tiny Swiss mountain outpost that consists of little more than a train station, a ...