The Latest Breaking News from Alps

Mountain rescuers were unable to save her

Police authorities in the French Alps have confirmed the 45-year-old was hiking with her partner and a guide when the avalanche was triggered at 5.30pm on Saturday.

In his brand new book Spare, Prince Harry details how he convinced himself that his mother had faked her own death and was living in a Parisian flat of log cabin in the Swiss Alps, and would send for him and his brother any day

The Swiss town of Davos will host 52 heads of state and government and nearly 600 CEOs as the World Economic Forum hosts its annual meeting in the Alps next week

A new study calculates that two-thirds of the world's glaciers will disappear by the end of the century at current climate change trends

The new ski resort, which will be south of Brecon Beacons National Park, will have Britain's biggest indoor ski runs and be one of the biggest of its kind in the world

Photos taken just months apart reveal how much snow has melted, leaving mountain tops green

Resorts open hiking trails and lifts for mountain bikes amid unseasonably high temperatures and lack of snow

Much of the Alps does not look right for this time of year following unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe, including record high January temperatures in Switzerland. The sparse snowfall has seen grass blanketing the continent’s central mountains, worrying the ski industry and winter sports organisers and reviving concerns about…