Some 9,196 recreational athletes swam across Lake Zurich on Wednesday in waters measuring 27 degrees Celcius. The event was ...

Switzerland’s security situation is deteriorating from year to year. The global confrontation with the US on the one hand and ...

Melting glaciers increase earthquake activity under the Mont Blanc massif, according to a study by Swiss researchers. It is ...

When West Australian artist ­Jacobus Capone set out to document a performance on France’s ­Bossons Glacier, he immersed ...

Sixteen departments have been placed on red alert, the highest level of warning, and 68 on orange alert as France faces the ...

Fremont’s Jojy Michael (top left), seen here in Les Houches, France, linked up with some college friends to hike 100 miles of ...

Global warming is causing various natural disasters to become more frequent or more severe. Earthquakes are now being added ...

A new study links climate change-induced glacier melt in the Alps to a surge in minor earthquakes, warning that seismic risk ...

French alpinists Yanis Cherqaoui, Baptiste Obino and Hugo Peruzzo made the first ascent of 'Le château dans le ciel' (ED, 7b+ ...

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Spanish alpinist Santiago Padròs and his Italian counterpart Emanuele Andreozzi climbed what may well be a new mixed climb on ...

Leo Billon has opened a new and difficult route on the Aiguille du Plan, and Vivian Bruchez has skied down all 84 of the ...