This man took his dog out for an adventure down a mountain in the Swiss Alps. As the man snowboarded down the hill, his dog excitedly chased after him. The man even held his furry friend while sliding ...

More remote than other popular Alpine destinations, Silvaplana was a favorite of Friedrich Nietzsche—and is one of the few ...

Grindelwald, nestled in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, is often called the most charming village in the Alps. Known as the "Glacier Village," it lies beneath the towering Eiger and Wetterhorn ...

From trippy mushroom synths to the stressed-out "pops" of thirsty plants, recording the music of nature has long been ...

Trade your hiking boots for cowboy boots during Country Night Gstaad, the annual country music festival held in the resort town every September. Learn about the tradition of alpine cheesemaking at the ...

Europe Glacier collapses, burying nearly all of Swiss Alpine village “We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud.

A collapsing glacier destroyed a Swiss village. Is climate change to blame? The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

On the hike up, Bertschy, who has an impressive portfolio as a sports scientist, physiotherapist and accomplished mountain runner, in addition to teaching yoga, explains that this is just one ...

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An official stated that 90% of the village of Blatten, with an estimated ...

FOR Switzerland’s top envoy to the Philippines Dr. Nicolas Brühl, his current tenure in Manila has been nothing short of fulfilling—teeming with purpose and perspective. Since arriving nearly two ...

During my visit in early March, I heard it described as the “sleeping beauty” of the Swiss Alps, a moniker the hotel’s area general manager, Lorenz Maurer, also used in an interview with the ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...