The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do. A cartographer at the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland. Jürg Gilgen draws the first lines of the Cornettes de ...

Recently, the Swiss Alps made the news when scientists found they were growing due to tectonic activity deep beneath Earth’s surface. Now, Mount Everest is also on the rise. Why is there so much, uh, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 2022 Tour of the Alps will cover 726.5 kilometres and 13,900 metres of elevation gain on the ...

The 2024 Tour of the Alps will cover 709.3 kilometres and 13,250 metres of elevation gain on the five-day journey from Neumarkt/Egna to the finale in Levico Terme, both in Italy, with one-and-a-half ...

Researchers have used a computer model to test a new hypothesis about the formation of the Alps while simulating seismic activity in Switzerland. This will help improve current earthquake risk models.

Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers. Photographer Tomaso Clavarino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers ...

Think of Slovenia’s Julian Alps and two images often spring to mind – the fairy-tale sight of Lake Bled and, if you’re a winter-sports fan, the ski slopes of Kranjska Gora. But this alpine region ...