On a sunny midweek morning last month, the risk of an avalanche across a broad swath of the Swiss Alps was judged to be “considerable”, according to a daily bulletin issued by the Swiss Institute for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chaotic video shows people fleeing as flames spread through a packed bar at a Swiss Alps ski resort shortly after midnight, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured after a fire broke out at a bar at a popular Swiss Alps ski resort town on ...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ...

FLAMES tore through one of the most exclusive hotels in the French Alps – forcing panicked guests to flee into the snow as firefighters battled through the darkness to contain a raging ...

What does a ski resort become without snow to ski on, when winter is gone? Laax in Switzerland has answers ...

Around 50 patients injured in the ski resort fire have been or will be transferred to hospitals in other European countries for specialist treatment, according to Mathias Reynard, the president and ...

This is part two of my three-part series on traveling through the Swiss Alps in search of the perfect ski resort. Part one explored the quaint yet famous mountain village of Mürren, home to the ...

In terms of area, forest is the most important means of avalanche protection. It is also the most cost-effective and is naturally renewable. This insight hit home after the winter of 1951, when over 1 ...