The Gimmelwald Cat and the Hiker: An Unexpected Alpine Encounter
A black-and-white cat, an Alpine trail and a hiker with a sore ankle: it is an excellent beginning for an unexpected mountain story. The en...
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Switzerland: Alps, Snow & Mountain Stories
Explore Switzerland through stories and photography of the Swiss Alps, snow and mountain landscapes. Browse the country collection, then discover more alpine destinations, skiing stories and winter adventures.
An Alpine Mountain Coaster Ride: The Track and the View
A shining metal track curves through green Alpine slopes, with mountains filling the view ahead. Brice Milleson's Switzerland Mountain ...
Martina Bisaz’s Switzerland: Reflections, Mountain Roads and Small Details
Turquoise water beneath snowy trees. An orange camper van beside a mountain road. A small figure reflected in a lake. Martina Bisaz’s Switze...
A Slow-Moving Avalanche in Valais: Why Pace Does Not Describe Its Force
There is no need for a towering powder cloud to make an avalanche formidable. In Christian Mermoud’s footage from Mayens-de-Saxon, in Switz...
Ten Winter City Breaks: Culture, Snow and Different Ways to Spend the Season
A great winter city break does not depend on waking up to perfect snow. It needs streets worth exploring, somewhere welcoming to warm up an...
Ten Winter Activities: From Sledging and Skating to Specialist Snow Sports
Your ideal snow day might involve a gentle glide, a lesson that leaves you grinning, or watching a sport you are curious about before tryin...
Mikołaj Gospodarek’s Swiss Alps in Black and White
Take the colour out of a mountain photograph and there is still a great deal to see. Mikołaj Gospodarek’s Swiss Alps series finds its drama...
A Dog Brings a Game of Fetch to the Skiers in Leukerbad
Two skiers are making their way through the snow when a dog arrives with a different plan for the day. There is a stick, there are two avai...
Lauterbrunnen: Waterfalls, Cliffs and Valley Life
In Lauterbrunnen, the cliff faces are so tall that a village street or a small farm building becomes part of the way we understand them. Th...
The Cambrian in Adelboden: Mountain Views, Spa Time and a Better-Planned Stay
In this article The photograph that makes you stop What the spa offers Adelboden is the destination to enter in the journey planner Would yo...
James Mort’s Avalanche Rescue in the Swiss Alps: The Survivor’s Account
James Mort did not share his avalanche rescue simply as a lucky escape. He wanted other skiers to learn from the group’s mistakes. That pur...
Bern in Winter: Old-Town Walks, Seasonal Lights and Time Indoors
In this article A winter city break with its own character Match your dates to the event you want Give the day a warm middle Keep mountain o...
Furka Pass: The Mountain Road, Its Seasonal Limits and the Journey Around It
In this article The road is part of the landscape An open date matters more than a reputation Give the driver permission to miss a view The ...
Marshall Miller’s Foggy Mountain BASE-Jump Film
Fog changes the way an action-camera image feels. It hides the distance, removes the familiar horizon and leaves the viewer with only a few...
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Sea-Ice Scenes: Patterns, Bubbles and Blue Ice
Winter water can look like a collection of different materials: glass plates, pale bubbles, tiny flowers and long white threads. The pleasu...
Karol Nienartowicz’s Mountain Tents: Six Years of Camps and Landscapes
A tent is a small subject for a mountain photograph, but that is precisely why it works. In Karol Nienartowicz’s collection, it gives the l...
A Concrete Cabin in Graubünden: Familiar Form, Unexpected Material
At first glance, Refugi Lieptgas has the reassuring outline of a small Alpine hut. Move closer and the familiar horizontal walls become som...
The Scale of Nature: Jakub Polomski’s People in the Alps
Find the people first—or try to. In Jakub Polomski’s The Scale of Nature , human figures can be so small that the mountains seem to reveal ...
Riverboarding on the Aletsch Glacier: Gailland and Janin Photographed by David Carlier
A blue channel cuts through pale glacier ice, and two small figures move within it. David Carlier’s photographs of Claude-Alain Gailland an...
20 Small Houses in Winter Landscapes: Colour, Shelter and Scale
A small house can change an entire landscape photograph. Add one warm window or a patch of red paint to a broad field of snow, and the eye ...