The Italian Alps draw millions of visitors every year, and that means a mountain of work for local search and rescue teams.

Botanists report the first naturalisation of the endangered Serbian spruce outside its native Balkan range, tracing a ...

A German woman has died while climbing in the Italian Alps, crashing down more than 50 metres near the Slovenian border, mountain rescuers said on Monday. The 32-year-old, an experienced climber, was ...

As the world watches top athletes chase medals on the meticulously groomed slopes of Italy’s Winter Olympic Games, tragedy is unfolding on the backcountry mountains next door. At least 13 people have ...

Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers. Photographer Tomaso Clavarino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Italian media are calling it a hecatombe-- massacre. At least 83 people have died in the Italian Alps between June 21 and July ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bodies of two Romanian climbers missing since last week were found Monday in the Gran Paradiso massif in the Italian Alps, ...

A large survey combining new field collections and herbarium revisions reports 518 occurrences of 288 lichen taxa in the ...

This sumptuous lodge sits high above a resort village — but is dwarfed by a legendary mountain. Some 325 feet above the town of Cervinia, Italy, and in full view of the Matterhorn, a chalet known as ...

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