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 ...

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

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 ...

Explore how the Alps challenge geography with towering peaks, dramatic landscapes, and hidden wonders that make Europe’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Fr. Geoffroy Génin, a 69-year-old French priest, is pictured in an undated photo. Génin spends one day a week on the ski slopes in the Alps offering chairlift confessions for skiers. (OSV ...