When picturing the Alps, most travellers conjure snowy scenes. Europe’s most extensive mountain range has become defined by its world-class ski resorts, regular host to the Winter Olympics. But until ...

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 ...

View of the Les Menuires ski resort in the French Alps, during the summer holidays, on August 8, 2018. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP) Short, intense summer rainfall in Europe's Alpine regions is ...

Move over beaches, and hello mountains ...

Picture: Keystone/Christian Beutler Heat, a record at zero degrees and strong fluctuations in precipitation: the summer in the Alps was anything but ordinary. What experts expect for the future. Last ...

Finally, after what was arguably the worst summer on record for glaciers, snow has begun to fall in the European Alps. It is much needed. Over the 19 years that I have visited and studied the glaciers ...