Simon Gietl of Italy has used the low temperatures in the Central Alps to redpoint Lumina, a highly difficult M8 route he had opened solo last April. For the climb, Gietl paired with world champion ...

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 ...

From ice skating and cross-country skiing to snowy train rides and cosy cabins stays, there are many memorable ways to make ...

Located high up in the Excalibur sector, the overhanging Ben Hur was established in 1997 by Swiss climbers Mike Schwitter and Andy Maag with long run-outs and few bolts. 12 years after the ascent and ...

The 2025 Tour of the Alps will again be packed with short but intense mountain stages as it winds from Trentino in Italy to Lienz in Austria in late April. The five-day Tour of Alps is considered a ...

French ski mountaineering champion Adèle Milloz and an unidentified female companion died on Friday while they were climbing on the Mont-Blance mountain range in the French Alps, according to an ...

Nicolas Favresse, Sébastien Berthe, Damien Largeron and their dogs Bintje and Krou during their month-long bike and climbing trip across the Alps Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, ...

Anderl Heckmair, a German mountain guide who led the first team to conquer the notorious north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, has died, his publisher said Wednesday. He was 98. Heckmair died ...

Authorities said it's unclear what caused them to fall, proposing that it might have been the result of human error or a potential rockslide Getty Two Austrian ...

Filmed in the Southern Alps in New Zealand, a group of strangers from all backgrounds come together for a chance to win a whopping $1 million cash prize. However, to receive the money, they must work ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ten Alps well named. The TV group will have to scale several mountains before its shares return to where they ...