Discover the top 10 places to visit in the Swiss Alps, where breathtaking peaks, crystal-clear lakes, and charming alpine ...

Rigorous by day, relaxing by night, hut-to-hut running through the Swiss Alps is the trip of a lifetime. Here's how to get ...

From the Klein Matterhorn you can make the long (22-kilometer), but relatively easy, cross-border glacier run to Cervinia in Italy (don’t forget your passport).

For 160 years, the body of a Scots aristocrat who died in the first expedition to the top of the Matterhorn has been trapped ...

The journey to Gstaad is part of the experience. Swiss Air offers daily flights from LAX to Zurich (10 hours), with business class featuring those lay-flat seats you'll want for arriving fresh.

The village of Blatten, in a valley below the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, was destroyed Wednesday by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed. A local river is now ...

The incident resulting in Hediger's death occurred when she and a companion had gone snowboarding in the town of Arosa, in the Swiss Alps, local police said in an online statement. The pair had ...

The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ice loss is now inevitable.

In 2024, Swiss glaciers lost 2.5% of their volume, according to Reuters. Central Europe, including Switzerland, lost a staggering 39% of its glacial ice between 2000 and 2024, as a team of ...

The so-called "Matterhorn silence" is intended to honor more than 500 climbers who have died trying to reach the top. (Dominic Steinmann/Keystone via AP) (Dominic Steinmann/Keystone via AP) ...

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 ...

A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...