The thin air above cloud level. The views over snow-tipped mountains. The climbs over boulder and scree, and the first gasp ...

A British skier has died after losing control on a Swiss Alpine piste and crashing into a river. In the Swiss Alps, including the Bernese Alps, there were 28 fatal accidents on ski tours last ...

Emergency services recovered his body on Tuesday, following an aerial search of the mountain located in the Bernese Alps, a sub-range of the Swiss Alps. His work colleagues reported him missing ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Bernese Alps are in southwestern Switzerland. Setting the sight line: After years of climbing up a pair of ...

Scottish fell runner and mountaineer Finlay Wild reveals the secret to a crowd-free ski tour in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland Approaching the summit, we were more excited by the view to the hut than ...

The climb in the Bernese Alps, completed on April 5, saw the pair broke the previous record of 25 hours by Swiss alpinists Ueli Steck and Stephan Siegrist in 2004. "This record feels completely ...

The helicopter failed to land in a place reserved for this purpose. The accident occurred on 10 April, according to the first report from the Swiss Safety Investigation Service (SESE), which has ...

The man, aged 54, was skiing in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps when he crashed into the Rychenbach Stream. The skier was traveling from Kleine Scheidegg in the direction of Brandegg. According to local ...

Jungfrau is the tallest of the three, standing at 13,642ft (4,158m). It’s well known for its towering presence over the Bernese Alps. Kevin O'Connor went into the lab and cooked up his definitive TOP ...