Here in the Northwest, we are lucky to have the Cascades and the Olympics so close. Besides being destinations for skiing, hiking and scenic drives, the mountains are a constant presence — most days, ...

The Alps might be on many vacation bucket lists, but a journey into the mountains is much more attainable than most think, ...

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 ...

MONT BLANC, France (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A hiker became the 5th body on a famous peak in a single day after he fell to his death. According to CBS News,a 61-year-old Danish hiker fell to his ...

A mountain climber had to be airlifted to safety from near the summit of Mont Blanc after a thief stole his walking boots, police said. The Alpinist was reportedly just a few hundred meters away from ...

Francesco Vascellari and Loris de Barba introduce '4000m Peaks in the Alps. Ski Touring and Steep Skiing', their guidebook to the 4000m mountains in the Alps. Three routes presented on ...

Sept 3 (Reuters) - Ultra-trail runner Kilian Jornet has successfully linked 82 of the Alps' 4,000-metre peaks across Switzerland, France, and Italy in 19 days, by running, mountaineering, climbing, ...

The world’s first peak-to-peak suspension bridge is open for business (and panic attacks) in the Swiss Alps. Peak Walk at Glacier 3000 is 351 feet long and 9,800 feet above sea level. Visitors who ...

The Alps will experience 'peak glacier extinction' in just eight years – with thousands of glaciers lost forever, an ominous study has predicted. Using state–of–the–art models, researchers calculated ...

The well-known glaciers of the European Alps are rapidly disappearing, and scientists are now warning that thousands of them might vanish completely in the next few decades. A recent study suggests ...

Pop culture can inspire travel, and a novel movie encounter has lured me to distant destinations. “Switzerland’s most spectacular view is at the Schilthorn,” said Urs Hauser — someone who should know.