Four other people were freed from the avalanche snow, police said ... to warn of a major avalanche risk in the southern Swiss Alps. The risk was considered especially high in the Grisons and ...

At the time of the accident, the avalanche danger was moderate – two out of five – according to the Institute for Snow and Avalanche ... in avalanches in the Swiss Alps, despite warnings ...

It has been two years since 18-year-old Vail local Emily Franciose was killed in an avalanche in Switzerland ... Emily chose to spend her senior year in the Swiss Alps, attending the international ...

Switzerland has some of the most spectacular views in the whole of Europe, but even the best photos and most detailed ...

While other Swiss resorts scramble for snow, Gstaad's high-altitude terrain ... mountaintop restaurant that's already the talk of the Alps. The winter social calendar here reads like a European ...

Permafrost is the hidden frozen “glue” – a layer formed by ice, rock and soil – that holds icy northern landscapes together.

Four Norwegians and a Swiss woman were reportedly killed in avalanches while skiing off-piste in the French Alps on Wednesday ... urging caution owing to unstable snow conditions. “On account of the ...

I simply love skiing in Europe’s Alps ... mystically over a rugged snow-draped landscape. The wind and cloud-swept Matterhorn dominates the Alpine range above the Swiss mountain village of ...