My first ski trip to the Alps was in 1992. As I reluctantly drove away from the mountains at the end of the adventure, I ...

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 ...

"There is no finer place to soak in the atmosphere of winter sport than the Bahnhof Restaurant at Kleine Scheidegg, a tiny Swiss mountain outpost that consists of little more than a train station, a ...

It is a fun time for the Royal Family of Wales in the Alps. The Prince and Princess of Wales went on a vacation along with their kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. In the ...

A French skier has just become the first person to climb and ski every mountain in the Alps higher than 4,000m (12,000 feet). After chipping away at the project for 15 years, Vivian Bruchez scaled the ...

Nestled in the heart of the Serra da Estrela mountain range, Portugal’s only ski resort offers a small snowy domain, perfect ...

This story is created by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As options for the traditional chalet ski break have dwindled and prices risen, venturing to Europe’s far corners and beyond for a ski ...

For decades, Alpine ski resorts competed by expanding terrain and linking lift systems across valleys and borders. Now, as many of the region’s largest areas become interchangeable on size alone, ...