The Alps, which cover two-thirds of Switzerland, are the country's largest geographical area. The mountain range stretches from Lake Geneva in the west to the Austrian border in the east, and the ...

Six die in Switzerland weekend mountain accidents AFP AFP May 25, 2025 Updated 33 mins ago 0 The Rimpfischhorn is a 4,199-metre (13,776-foot) mountain east of Zermatt, near the Italian border HANDOUT ...

Switzerland's first biosphere reserve, designated in 2001, encompasses the 245-square mile Emme River valley between Bern and Luzern (also spelled Lucerne).

Tourists helicoptered down from Swiss mountain resort after mudslide cuts off road access A road is blocked in Saasal, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 5, 2024, after a landslide following severe weather.

Mountain adventure enthusiast Nicolaus Marshall is on the mend and already envisioning his next climb, after the quick wits of a civilian employee at Ramstein Air Base helped him out of an Alps ...

Late last year, Xie and her husband took a two-week hiking trip to Switzerland. On day two of the getaway, she experienced a life-altering accident, falling about 300 feet down a mountain.

‘It Could Have Been So Much Worse’: Mountain Collapse Narrowly Misses Swiss Village Fifty million cubic feet of rock came to rest just shy of Brienz and its schoolhouse.

Vals is a mountain village (with an elevation of about 4,100 feet) that lays claim to a natural 86-degree spring — the only one in the Grisons canton to come directly from the ground.

The Rimpfischhorn is a 4,199-metre (13,776-foot) mountain that lies east of Zermatt, near the Italian border, and is popular with backcountry skiers.