Grenoble hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics, but its winters are shorter and milder nowadays, and with less consistent heavy ...

Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, a former Olympic bronze medalist from Switzerland, died on Sunday January 11. after being ...

Ueli Kestenholz, who won a bronze medal in the first snowboarding event in Olympic history while representing Switzerland at ...

Hiking will always be a part of life in the Alps, but climate change has made navigating high-alpine routes more complicated ...

Crans-Montana is set to host Alpine ski races at the 2038 Olympics as organizers of the Switzerland bid detailed their plan ...

The majestic Alps Mountains of Austria are on display in their full grandeur, in this drone footage filmed by featured pilots ...

Swiss investigators believe sparklers on Champagne bottles started a deadly fire at a bar in an Alpine ski resort.

A massive fire tore through a crowded bar in the Swiss Alps resort of Crans-Montana, leaving several people dead and more ...

A series of avalanches in the Italian Alps killed two people and injured several others on Friday, with strong winds hampering the rescue operations, rescuers said.

Authorities also said around 115 people were also injured in the fire that broke out during New Year's celebrations in the ...