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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Kilian Jornet Burgada has completed an incredible, unfathomable, almost absurd, feat by climbing all 82 4,000-meter peaks in the Alps in the astonishing time of just 19 days. Starting from Piz Bernina ...

In July 1954, Enrico Fermi took a beautiful and possibly quite dangerous trip to the French Alps as part of a group from The Summer School at Les Houches. The rest of this post will take a closer look ...

I simply love skiing in Europe’s Alps, and I’ve had my greatest, most memorable winter adventures exploring this lofty, rugged mountain range that spans the heart of Europe. One of my favorite areas, ...

This post was updated Dec. 4 at 9:21 p.m. The Getty Center’s look at an iconic mountain range presents a clever historical angle but leaves something to be desired. “Exploring the Alps” opened Tuesday ...