FURIOUS Alpine locals have blasted wild new plans to create a 65-storey skyscraper in the middle of a tourist village. The ...

A French skier has just become the first person to climb and ski every mountain in the Alps higher than 4,000m (12,000 feet). After chipping away at the project for 15 years, Vivian Bruchez scaled the ...

A mountain climber had to be airlifted to safety from near the summit of Mont Blanc after a thief stole his walking boots, police said. The Alpinist was reportedly just a few hundred meters away from ...

MONT BLANC, France (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A hiker became the 5th body on a famous peak in a single day after he fell to his death. According to CBS News,a 61-year-old Danish hiker fell to his ...

The world’s first peak-to-peak suspension bridge is open for business (and panic attacks) in the Swiss Alps. Peak Walk at Glacier 3000 is 351 feet long and 9,800 feet above sea level. Visitors who ...

Here in the Northwest, we are lucky to have the Cascades and the Olympics so close. Besides being destinations for skiing, hiking and scenic drives, the mountains are a constant presence — most days, ...

The climbers' bodies have been found and specialist searchers were working to recover them "in a challenging alpine ...

Glenn Exum, a mountain climber who conquered the summits of the Alps and the Rockies and shared his experience with hundreds of others through his guide service, died on March 17 at his home in ...