Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Mother Nature had one of her wildest moments shaping the Alps, ...

In 1786, a doctor in Cha­­m­onix named Michel-­Gabriel ­Paccard and a local crystal hunter, Jacques Balmat, teamed up to become the first two people ever recorded to stand atop 15,770-foot Mont Blanc, ...

This travel adventure highlights a journey to the heart of the Swiss Alps, specifically focusing on an affordable stay at a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our Swiss trek wasn’t supposed to start like this, with a blister the size of a thumbnail and the moleskin to ease it 5 miles away. It was supposed to be as ...

On a July morning shortly before 9 a.m., my adventure of crossing the Alps began. Along with my father and a handful of other mountain sports enthusiasts, I traveled all the way to Wildental, Austria ...

I’m never going to argue that a good book and a sun lounger isn’t a winning summer holiday formula, but go on enough of those trips and the novelty starts to wane. Seen one swim up bar, you’ve seen ...

DW travel reporter Benjamin Restle crossed the Alps this summer. In the mountains, the consequences of climate change are especially tangible — and even dangerous. On a July morning shortly before 9 a ...