The Alps, one of the most iconic mountain ranges in the world, stretch across eight countries in south-central Europe. This extensive mountain system spans approximately 1,200 kilometres in a crescent ...

No audio available for this content. GPS data serves as the basis for a geodetic model of the Alps. Here, a horizontal strain field is derived from the data. Red areas indicate compression; blue ...

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies in south-central Europe. This mountain range stretches approximately 750 miles (1,200 kilometres). It was formed millions of ...

While the Alps is known primarily as a winter playground, the mountain range is emerging as a summer destination. New and discounted rail links across Europe are making the peaks an attractive no-fly ...

In July, Lorenzo Pernigotti, a seasoned mountain climber who has summited over 100 peaks in the Alps, scaled Aiguilles du Diable—“devil’s horns” in English—a set of rock towers on one of 11 major high ...

At 57 km, the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be the longest rail tunnel in the world once it opens for use in mid-2016. The sky is still black over the Swiss Alps as we climb aboard a train one morning in ...

The European Alps are both growing and shrinking, with two dynamic processes acting against each other for a net effect of ... nothing. The Alps were formed from the collision of the African and ...

ON THE ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland — It’s a pageant of devils and demons, virgins and Pontius Pilate. But this is no horror story or nightmare -- just a taste of the Alpine legends that lend their ...