19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
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Italy: Alpine Scenery & Mountain Stories
Discover Italy through mountain photography, alpine landscapes and stories from the outdoors. Explore the country archive, then browse related collections on the Alps, skiing and winter destinations.
TIMEDRIFT II: Martin Heck’s Dolomites Time-Lapse and the Peaks It Shows
Clouds pour over jagged ridges, shadows sweep across pale rock walls and the sky turns from pink to deep blue in seconds. TIMEDRIFT II is f...
Glacier Camping in the Mont Blanc Massif: Night Photos Under Alpine Stars
Two tents glow on the Géant Glacier, the dark ridge of Aiguille d’Entrèves above them and the first stars coming out over the Mont Blanc ma...
Gran Paradiso National Park: Alpine Ibex, History and Landscapes
Gran Paradiso National Park, in the Graian Alps of northwest Italy, is the country's oldest national park and the place that saved the A...
Lago di Braies (Pragser Wildsee): Dolomites Lake Guide and Photos
Lago di Braies, or Pragser Wildsee in German, is the lake that made the Prags Dolomites famous. It lies at 1,494 metres in a side valley of...
Climbers in the Mont Blanc Massif: Kamil Tamiola’s Alpine Photography
A splash of red or orange is often all it takes to understand the size of a mountain. Kamil Tamiola, a commercial outdoor photographer who ...
Léo Taillefer’s GoPro Line of the Winter Run in Val d'Isère (2015)
Ski tips in the corner of the frame, a gloved hand, and then a fast, playful run through the off-piste terrain of Val d'Isère. French fr...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: 15 Snowy Places from Banff to Japan
Snow changes a place more than any other weather. A footbridge in New York, a thatched village in Japan, a turquoise lake in the Canadian R...
27 Mountain Landscapes Around the World: From Nanga Parbat to the Altai
Mountains come in many shapes: an 8,000-metre Himalayan wall, a lone volcano above the clouds, limestone pillars on a Siberian river, chalk...
20 Little Houses in Winter Scenery: Tromsø, Lapland, Iceland and the Alps
A single red cabin under snow-covered peaks near Tromsø, a yellow house among frosted trees, a hunting lodge buried to its roof in the Dolo...
Giuliano Mauri’s Tree Cathedral: The Cattedrale Vegetale in Italy
Rows of tall wooden lattice columns march through the woods like the aisles of a Gothic church, and inside each column a young tree is growi...
Winter in Europe: Prague, Reykjavík, Abisko, Copenhagen and Venice
Winter changes the character of Europe’s great destinations. Snow settles on Prague’s Gothic towers, Reykjavík steams with geothermal pools...
10 Ski Villages for a Winter Holiday: Chamonix, Zermatt, Hakuba and More
The best ski holidays combine a great mountain with a town worth coming back to after the last lift. These ten ski villages, from Chamonix ...
Lago del Predil: Julian Alps Lake Guide, Legend and Things to Do
Lago del Predil sits at about 960 metres in a high valley of the Julian Alps, a few minutes’ drive from the Slovenian border. Its blue-green...
Highline Hammocks at Monte Piana: The International Highline Meeting
Every September, several hundred slackliners gather on Monte Piana in the Italian Dolomites for the International Highline Meeting, the lar...
Bivacco Luca Vuerich: Free Nine-Bed Summit Hut in the Julian Alps
On the bare summit of Foronon del Buinz, 2,531 metres up in Italy’s Julian Alps, stands a tiny wooden A-frame with nine bunks and one of th...
Alpine Ibex Climbing a Dam Wall: Paolo Seimandi's Photographs
At first the grey wall looks empty. Look again and the small brown shapes become Alpine ibex, standing on a dam face so steep it seems impo...
Navarre the Wolf: Rescue from an Icy River and Rehabilitation in Italy
On 9 January 2012, a starving wolf was found trapped in the icy Limentra river in the Apennines south of Bologna, too weak to climb out. Re...
Campodolcino Under Deep Snow: Winter in Italy's Valle Spluga
In February 2014 a heavy run of storms left the Italian Alpine village of Campodolcino under snow so deep that residents struggled to get o...
Diving into Deep Snow in Northern Italy During the Record Winter of 2014
In February 2014 the snow piled so high against the houses of northern Italy that a man could launch himself from a building and land in a w...