The coronavirus crisis shuttered Switzerland's ski resorts in the spring, but they are banking on tighter
precautions and the Swiss love of the mountains to save them as the winter
season kicks off.
Autumn started just a few days ago, but cold weather and snow are predicted as of Saturday. Swiss meteorologists call it ‘the first polar invasion of the season’.
Bones discovered at the foot of the Matterhorn have been identified as the remains of a Japanese national who disappeared on the iconic mountain four years ago, Swiss police said Monday October 1st.
Police found the alpinist dead on the morning of Tuesday July 24th in the Silvretta Alps mountain range, near the border with Austria in eastern Switzerland.
Family members of German retail billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub have lost hope of finding him alive, a week after he went missing while skiing in the Swiss Alps, his company Tengelmann group said on Friday.
The habitat of mountain, or snow, hares, one of the species most affected by climate change, could shrink by as much as one third by 2100, a new study reveals.
The search for eight hikers missing in the Swiss Alps has been called off, police announced on Saturday, three days after they were lost in a massive landslide.
The last concrete block was put in place in the Ceneri rail tunnel on Tuesday, bringing Switzerland ever closer to finishing its complete rail link through the Alps.
An investigation into the Swiss F/A-18 fighter jet that smashed into the Alps last week has found that flight controllers told the pilot to fly far below a safe altitude.
The pilot of a Swiss fighter jet that crashed in the mountains on a training exercise on Monday has been found dead, the Swiss defence ministry has confirmed.
The remains of a Swiss army fighter jet that disappeared over the Alps on Monday have been located in central Switzerland, but the pilot is still missing, the defence ministry said.
