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The Alps, Spain’s Sierra Nevada and the national parks of Sweden and Albania feature among our readers’ treasured winter mountain breaks

Prince William and Kate Middleton win a French privacy case against Paris Match for publishing private family photos from an Alps holiday.

Young Frenchman reportedly set off at 3am to complete the 12 hours ride in the French and Swiss Alps

In a hidden valley in the French Alps, conservationists are quietly raising Europe’s largest bird of prey – the bearded vulture – once wiped out from these mountains. After a century away, it is once again soaring again over the Alps, but its comeback still depends on human care.

By switching TV screens and iPhones for nature, Felicity Byrnes and daughter reach peak bonding among the mountains of Verbier

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades.

The Alps have become overrun with Bentleys and bling. Head instead to the charming and more authentic slopes of the Dolomites this winter

An expert team of trail runners retrace the steps of Banryu, an 18th-century monk and pioneering Japanese alpinist

The Mammut Photo Contest –the most creative competition on the circuit –just unveiled its category and Grand Prize winners… and they're incredible