In a gymnasium, a clandestine four-person group meets to discuss its name. One member suggests “Alps,” explaining: “The mountains of the Alps cannot be replaced by any other mountain. Anything else ...

Across the Alps, ice that has locked away human stories for millennia is vanishing, and with it a new, unsettling landscape is emerging. As glaciers retreat and high mountain permafrost thaws, they ...

A Roman camp sitting at nearly 7,000 feet in the Swiss Alps has been uncovered. The site links directly to a known ...

Nowadays, there are two ways to travel: fast travel—packing as many bucket-list destinations, tourist hotspots and Instagram shots as possible into a short amount of time—and slow travel—journeying ...