Gimmelwald Cat Guides an Injured Hiker Down a Swiss Alps Trail
A hiker with a sprained ankle, a closed path above Gimmelwald and a black-and-white cat that kept walking ahead and looking back: in August...
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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.
Oeschinensee Mountain Coaster: A Summer Toboggan Ride above Kandersteg
A shining metal track curves across green Alpine meadows, and the peaks of the Bernese Oberland fill the horizon. Brice Milleson’s point-of...
Martina Bisaz’s Switzerland: Alpine Lakes, an Orange VW Bus and Photo Tips
Turquoise lakes under frosted trees, an orange VW bus on a mountain pass, the Matterhorn glowing pink in a tiny pool: these photographs of S...
Slow Wet-Snow Avalanche at Mayens-de-Saxon, Valais: Hear the Trees Snap
Most famous avalanche videos show a white cloud racing down a mountain. Christian Mermoud's clip from Mayens-de-Saxon in the Swiss cant...
Ten Winter City Breaks: Chicago, Québec, Prague, Bern, Tromsø and More
Some cities are at their best when the temperature drops: skating rinks appear in the squares, markets glow in the early dark and old stree...
Ten Fun Winter Sports to Try Beyond Skiing, from Sledging to Luge
Skiing is only the start of what snow and ice can offer. From a floodlit Swiss sled run to a dog team in Greenland, these ten winter sports...
Swiss Alps in Black and White: Mikołaj Gospodarek’s Mountain Photos
Strip the colour out of a mountain photograph and what remains is shape, light and texture. Polish landscape photographer Mikołaj Gospodarek...
Dog Plays Fetch with Skiers in Leukerbad, Switzerland
Two skiers are crossing a snowy slope in Leukerbad, Switzerland, when a black-and-white dog trots up with a stick and a clear request: thro...
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Staubbach, Trümmelbach and the 72 Waterfalls
Lauterbrunnen sits on the floor of a deep glacial trough in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland, between Interlaken and the Jungfrau massif....
The Cambrian, Adelboden: Alpine Spa Hotel with a Famous Outdoor Pool
The Cambrian sits in the centre of Adelboden, a mountain village at 1,350 metres at the head of the Engstligen valley in the Bernese Oberla...
Avalanche Rescue at Les Crosets: James Mort’s Burial in the Swiss Alps
On 30 January 2015, Australian skier James Mort was swept into a terrain trap by an avalanche above Les Crosets, on the Swiss side of the P...
Bern in Winter: Old Town Arcades, Landmarks and Seasonal Events
Bern, Switzerland’s federal city, is at its most atmospheric in winter, when frost settles on the sandstone arcades and lights glow in the w...
Furka Pass, Switzerland: Rhône Glacier, Goldfinger Road and Opening Dates
Contents Furka Pass route: Realp to Oberwald Rhône Glacier and Hotel Belvédère Goldfinger and the James Bond Strasse When is Furka Pass open...
Marshall Miller’s GoPro BASE Jump into Fog over Lauterbrunnen
In “GoPro: Marshall Miller Jumps Into The Unknown”, a camera on the athlete's head looks out from a rocky ledge into a wall of white. B...
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Seas: Baikal, Abraham Lake and Frost Flowers
When water freezes, it can record its own story: methane bubbles stacked like coins under the surface, turquoise slabs pushed up by the win...
Karol Nienartowicz’s Tent Photography: Six Years of Mountain Camps
A small tent glowing beneath snowy peaks under a dark sky: for six years, Polish mountain photographer Karol Nienartowicz carried his tent t...
Refugi Lieptgas, Flims: A Swiss Log Cabin Cast in Concrete
On the edge of the forest at Flims, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, stands what looks like an old log hut half buried in snow. It is act...
The Scale of Nature: Jakub Polomski’s Black-and-White People in the Alps
Look closely and you will find them: a line of climbers on a snowfield, two figures on a ridge, a single person among broken glacier ice. I...
Hydrospeed on the Aletsch Glacier: Riverboarding Down Switzerland's Ice
In summer the surface of the Aletsch Glacier melts into fast blue rivers that cut deep channels through the ice. French mountain athlete Cl...
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...