Many river sources are in the Alps. When snow and ice melt in the spring and summer, they supply water to the rivers and lakes at the foot of the mountains. The Alps are Europe’s biggest ...

Italy will host the 2028 Youth Winter Olympics spread across the Alps in the northern part of the country. Dolomiti ...

Summer on Japan's Southern Alps The Southern Alps are located in the middle of the Japanese archipelago. Mountain ranges peaking at an altitude of 3,000 meters continue for over 120 kilometers ...

The Best of the Alps, a tourism promotion consortium founded more than 40 years ago, recently came to town to remind American travel writers that this is where skiing began over 100 years ago and ...

Even the European Alps, where 69 per cent of the world's ski ... been forced to store snow in vast insulated reserves over the summer to supplement slopes during the following season.

Comprised mostly of compact rock (the famous white marble that contributed in making them famous and which is also the cause of the continuous, relentless quarrying) in summer the Apuan Alps lend ...

"This year we have been experiencing an extraordinary hot and dry summer in the Alps and elsewhere in Europe. For Swiss glaciers (as well as Tsanfleuron and Scex Rouge), we will measure the most ...