Hiking is one of favourite summer pastimes for many people in Switzerland, but the country’s hilly and often rugged terrain can be treacherous as well.
Many people living in Switzerland enjoy taking a trip to the countryside in the warmer months - but not everyone leaves forests how they found them and some even damage nature.
There have been several fatal incidents on the slopes of Mont Blanc during the summer of 2024 - a sign that the dangers facing the hundreds of mountaineers who attempt to climb the peak each year are increasing as the climate crisis worsens.
Switzerland is a perfect place to go hiking with its thousands of marked trails. However, hundreds of people get into accidents while trekking every year, and sometimes they can be fatal. Here is what you need to know to be safe.
Switzerland's mountainous terrain offers perfect hiking country for thousands of walkers each summer but this year over 600 trails have been forced to close after bad weather. And some may never reopen.
The number of foreigners involved in fatal incidents in the Swiss Alps reached a ten year high in 2023, a new report from the Swiss Alpine Club reveals.
More than two dozen hikers and climbers have died so far in 2023 in the mountains of the Swiss canton of Valais, prompting police authorities to strengthen its rescue unit. Why are the Alps claiming so many lives?
Local authorities in the Swiss resort of Zermatt have dismissed calls for the Matterhorn to be closed after a mountain guide said the peak was too dangerous.
Two German mountaineers have fallen to their deaths while climbing one of the highest peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Dent
Blanche, police said on Sunday.
Heading up to the mountains is a national pastime in Switzerland but 2018 got off to a particularly deadly start and experts are worried the Alpine country is set for a record number of mountain fatalities this year.
A 60-year-old hiker was rescued on Saturday after two other walkers carried out CPR on the man using instructions given out over his mobile phone by the Swiss Air-Rescue service Rega.
Switzerland has been experiencing unusually warm and sunny weather, but the month of October won’t set a new record as temperatures are set to dip this weekend.
