The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024. Extending some 1,200 km, the Alps occupy an area of about 200,000 ...

The second UNESCO gem also in Switzerland are the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, offering spectacular alpine views, with the mountain’s grandeur mentioned by over 100 visitors. The site provides ...

French investigators believe the shooter behind the 2012 Alps murders is an ex-Swiss special forces agent who “lost the plot” after undergoing training in the use of “high-precision ...

Every year, in the small alpine village of Davos, Switzerland, the most influential people in the world travel to the most elevated town in Europe to take part in a week of closed-door meetings ...

A new twist has emerged in the murder of a British family who were brutally gunned down and executed in the Alps 12 years ago ... be a semi-automatic pistol of Swiss origin, a Luger PO6/29.

A 62-year-old British woman has died in the French Alps after colliding with another skier, according to local reports. The English woman was skiing on the Aiguille Rouge mountain of Savoie at ...

The 62-year-old Centre Party politician from canton Valais has been part of the Swiss government since 2019, taking over from Doris Leuthard. The announcement overshadowed the main topic of the ...

A British woman has died after she crashed into a man who was stationary on a ski slope. The 65-year-old woman is believed to have skied into the man, 35, at Les Arcs resort in the French Alps at ...

Swiss skier Marco Odermatt has won the Lauberhorn downhill ski race in Wengen, Switzerland, for the third time. It was the fifth Swiss double of the season in the men's category, with compatriot ...

For many years that followed, the Rhone glacier blanketed the Swiss mountains in the cloak of white ice. The glacier tipped in the Alps of south-central Switzerland spilling its meltwater in Lake ...

The collision happened on a black run at the Les Arcs resort in Savoie, south-eastern France. An investigation is under way after a British woman died following a "violent collision" on a ski ...