Walking high above Gimmelwald, my favorite Swiss village ... and Schiltalp. The cows stay at the alps for about 100 days. The farmers hire a team of cheesemakers to work at each alp—mostly ...

Cows have been airlifted from a Swiss Alpine meadow in a process used by farmers to move the injured ones. The process is done annually to the members of the herd who can't walk down from their ...

About 100 yards from the rear of the rustic, wood-paneled inn, just past a child’s swing set, cuts the runway where the Swiss military ... farmers sometimes lead cows across it, bells clanging ...

A view of glacial melt in the Swiss Alps. Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The European Alps cover over 600 miles ...

While other Swiss resorts scramble for snow ... a striking mountaintop restaurant that's already the talk of the Alps. The winter social calendar here reads like a European fairy tale.

If you haven’t visited the Jungfrau region of the Swiss Alps, here’s a quick primer ... a perfect antidote to that much ...

In a helicopter high above the Swiss Alps, we see climate change in action. The glacial ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, revealing items frozen long ago. A scar suddenly appears in the ...