This summer, head up the mountains to escape the Italian heat. From the Piedmont Alps to the crests of the Apennines or the Dolomites, these mountain hamlets offer a rustic welcome, deep forests, ...

THE widely extended and systematic exploita-tion within recent years of the valuable water power resources of Switzerland and Italy, hitherto lying latent among the mountain chains of the Alps and ...

Climbers forged several bold new lines in the Alps in February and March. On February 16, Tom Lafaille and Noa Barrau skied a new line on the west face of Aiguille de Mesure.

A 1,200-mile route connecting Canterbury to Rome via France, the Swiss Alps and the Italian Apennines, passing churches and shrines devoted to St Francis. 3. Adam’s Peak, Sri Lanka In Sri Lanka ...

But scientists warn that ski holidays in the Alps could soon become a thing of the past. Scientists from Eurac Research found that snowfall plummeted by a third between 1920 and 2020.

Friday, March 29 North: cloudiness over Liguria, Alps, and high plains with light rain in the morning, attenuating during the day, sunnier elsewhere. Temperatures rising, highs between 16 and 21.

A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers can break apart in ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

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 ...