With lush meadows filled with wildflowers, crystal-clear lakes for wild swimming, and castles reachable only by forest trails ...

How many hours does it take to locate a single red helmet in an 183-hectare wide area of rough mountain terrain? For the ...

THE MOUNTAIN village of Susch is tucked away in the Engadine valley in the eastern Swiss Alps, with an elevation of 4,718 feet and a population of just over 200.

The route crosses 291 bridges and passes through 91 tunnels, each offering a new perspective of the Swiss Alps. It then climbs to the Oberalp Pass, the highest point on the route, which offers ...

Dähler toggles between map layers while revising the Swiss mountains in Adobe Photoshop. To edit the Alps, the first step is to remove any extraneous glaciers.

But capturing data on small shifts over time isn’t so easy. A new computer model based on more than a decade of GPS data shows the dynamic movements of the Alps as the mountain range drifts and rises.

The event, "Mountains and Balloons", started on Saturday in Gosau, Austria, under the motto "Protecting the Alps". Each day until Friday 17 January, 45 balloons from ten countries will rise into the ...