The Latest Breaking News from Alps

Swiss glaciers have recorded their worst melt rate since records began more than a century ago, losing 6% of their remaining volume this year or nearly double the previous record of 2003, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday,

Loic Menzies, 37, suffered multiple fractures in a cliff fall in Pembrokeshire and needed to be airlifted to hospital

Spring has arrived in Australia’s Snowy Mountains. The snow is starting to melt. Wildflowers are emerging in a variety of colours: blues, yellows, whites … hang on. Those aren’t white flowers. They’re scrunched up bits of toilet paper left behind by skiers, boarders and snow-shoers.

Australia's beloved snow gums are being affected by drought, fire and disease, and those who know the high plains of the Australian Alps can see parts of the landscape changing before their eyes.

Former skiing world champion Adele Milloz and an unnamed friend have been killed whilst attempting to climb Mont Blanc in the French Alps, amid searing temperatures

Record high temperatures in the Alps this summer have led to the discovery of two bodies and an aircraft that crashed in 1968

With winter sports and summer sun, the Austrian city is a destination with something for everyone

Editorial: Higher temperatures mean less snow snow and ice, more rockfalls and more fatalities on Europe’s overcrowded mountains. This cannot go on

From sea to ski, culture to cuisine, our Gallic neighbour ticks just about every holiday box going

The extreme temperatures Europe has experienced in recent weeks have resulted in an increase in the rate of snowpack melt in the Alpine glaciers. As in many other parts of the world, the consequences are increasingly visible in the Alps, where the glaciers are particularly vulnerable due to their smaller…

Melting of Theodul Glacier shifts boundary between two states