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The extreme temperatures Europe has experienced in recent weeks have resulted in an increase in the rate of snowpack melt in the Alpine glaciers. As in many other parts of the world, the consequences are increasingly visible in the Alps, where the glaciers are particularly vulnerable due to their smaller…

Melting of Theodul Glacier shifts boundary between two states

From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland's glaciers. Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in late September, the end of the…

From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland's glaciers.

Alexander Dru popped the question to Lady Tatiana Mountbatten while the couple were on a skiing holiday in the Alps

A few years back, Jonas Vingegaard struggled to find a team to sign him. Now the former fish-factory worker is surviving the heat of the Tour de France and is close to his first title.

Hikers looking for rugged trails, soaring vistas and convivial evenings drinking schnapps in mountain huts could do far worse than Germany's Berchtesgaden national park

When French environmental campaigners Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) briefly halted the Tour de France in the Alps on Tuesday, they hooked into a global audience. It's just one of several sporting events targeted this summer by climate activists to get their message across.

The riders leave the Alps but will still feel this lumpy stage in their tired legs

Some fear that Switzerland’s glaciers could disappear by 2100