I simply love skiing in Europe’s Alps, and I’ve had ... over a rugged snow-draped landscape. Zermatt’s out-of-this-world Alpine scenery and cherished Swiss winter traditions makes this ...

Anita Brookner’s introspective novel is set in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss town of Vevey on the shores of Lake Geneva. Brookner uses the Alps as a landscape both inspiring and oppressive.

Dive into Gstaad, where Switzerland's most exclusive Alpine ... Working farms dot the landscape, their cowbells echoing across valleys where some of the world's most exclusive hotels now stand.

The site provides an outstanding example of the formation of the High Alps, including the most glaciated part of ... notably through plan succession. Its impressive landscape has played an important ...

A view of glacial melt in the Swiss Alps. Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The European Alps cover over 600 miles ...

In a helicopter high above the Swiss Alps, we see climate change in action ... ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute on Forest, Snow and Landscape Research reconstructed ice loss in ...