I first stood on skis at age three. Thereafter, my parents took me skiing every winter, because we lived in Munich at the time, and various good valleys in the Austrian Alps were only a short ...

The country already has some of the Alps’ most high-tech lifts and Stuben, in the west, is following suit, replacing its 1983 two-seater chair with an eight-person gondola. There are also moves ...

It’s midwinter, and I’m doing lengths in a rooftop infinity pool in the Austrian Alps. The steaming stretch of water is 80ft long, set at eyeballing level with the craggy Leogang Rockies.

The Oetztal in the heart of the Austrian Alps is a winter sports mecca, but there’s something to be said for getting there before the ski bums. It was late summer when we arrived in Oetz, a ...

About that powder: The Austrian Alps boast sure-thing snow conditions. You’ll find scrupulously groomed corduroy, drool-worthy off-piste, versatile terrain, and plenty of vertical.

GENEVA — Much of the Alps just don’t look right for this time of year. Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm winter weather in much of Europe is allowing grass to blanket mountaintops across ...

Step into the heart of the Austrian Alps with an evening walk through Innsbruck, the historic capital of Tyrol. This city, the fifth-largest in Austria, lies in a stunning valley along the River Inn ...

With few new lines in the winter Alps, ambitious alpinists have turned to multi-peak traverses. Earlier this week, two climbers took on the Kalkkogel range.