A GRANDAD has told how his paraglider’s wing collapsed 9,000ft above the French Alps. Retired counter-terrorism cop Steve Barnett, 57, flew into a storm cloud, saturating his glider. The wing ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward ...

Here, near Germany’s border with Austria, the Alps rise abruptly, defeating any engineering that doesn’t tunnel through rock, scale cliffs or span canyons. And that’s about as thrilling as ...

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Researchers have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman military camp hidden in the mountains of Switzerland. The site is located in the Alps of eastern Switzerland and northern Italy, at an elevation ...

The site is representative of the southern slopes of the central-eastern Alps and comprises a variety of habitats including Alpine meadows, forest, grasslands and moorlands, alternating with ...

Just next to the eastern corner of the lake lies the town ... Near the center of the image we can see the Aletsch Glacier, the largest in the Alps, which stretches for approximately 23 km and ...