Ten people died in avalanches in the Swiss Alps last winter, according to the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research ...

Closed for the winter, passes in the Swiss Alps are scheduled to reopen for car traffic within the next few weeks, weather ...

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Passes in the Swiss Alps are set to reopen for cars; Lausanne may lose its title as Vaud's capital; and other news from ...

The Italian Alps, in turn, “are a hot spot within a hot spot." The big picture of climate change also means less overall snow for avalanches as glaciers globally shrink, especially in the Alps.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Zen, a 5-year-old border collie, circled friskily around a mound of snow as he picked ... buried beneath an avalanche in the Alps of northwestern Piedmonte ...