Smithsonian magazine’s Megan Gambino, who edited a story on this topic, and environmental scientist Markus Stoffel, who studies how climate change is impacting higher elevations. Both are skiing ...

This post was updated Dec. 4 at 9:21 p.m. The Getty Center’s look at an iconic mountain range presents a clever historical angle but leaves something to be desired. “Exploring the Alps” opened Tuesday ...

Discover the breathtaking beauty of Chamonix Valley and the Aiguilles Rouges mountain range, a stunning alpine paradise in the French Alps. Towering peaks, glacial lakes, and lush meadows create a ...

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lie in south-central Europe. The mountain range stretches approximately 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) in a crescent shape across ...

The UK’s Natural Environment Research Council contributed to the funding of this study. Lee Brown receives funding from NERC, Royal Geographical Society, EU Martin Wilkes does not work for, consult, ...

33 x 48. The scene is before Oetzthal, the giant peak of the Alps. The great white mountain, subdued by distance into blue, form a background towering up to the very heavens. The river is seen rolling ...

A recent heatwave in Europe created a lake high up in the French Alps at altitudes of more than 11,000 feet, in a place where temperatures are normally too cold to support liquid water. The lake, ...