The Latest Breaking News from Mont Blanc

Mountain’s peak has been measured every two years since 2001 and height has varied by almost 5 metres

From trekking the foothills of Mont Blanc to snowshoeing in Oulanka National Park, here are some of the best European trails to tread this winter

Beloved of historical figures from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Queen Victoria and Paul Cézanne, the great Alpine lakes of France’s Pays de Savoie match the region’s towering peaks, including Mont Blanc, in their “still, silent majesty”, said Steve King in Condé Nast Traveller. A tour might begin beside the largest and…

Paintings from a climb that retraced an 1800s route on western Europe’s highest mountain reveals the extent of the peak’s melting ice

Wout Poels wins stage 15 on the slopes of Mont Blanc, but Jonas Vingegaard still overall leader

A British man in his 50s has died during a climb on Mont Blanc in France.

A glacier trek to Col d’Entreves is a beginner-friendly but exhilarating and high-risk experience

An eight-day trek high in the Alps of France, Italy and Switzerland proves a stern test amid bad weather, snoring hikers and hangovers. But the views …

Makalu, at 27,825ft it is the fifth highest mountain in the world with a base camp as high as Mont Blanc, but it a mountain which is climbed far less often than other Himalayan peaks