No mountain-lovers like seeing cigarette butts, plastic bottles and used tissues left in the mountains. But it’s not always convenient or easy to collect other people’s trash and take it with you.
A hiker trapped in the Austrian mountains was rescued after sending an SOS to the American makers of a GPS device who then sent it back around the world to the local mountain rescue team.
A 55-year-old hiker died after falling 80 metres from a cliff in the Alpstein mountain range in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, police said on Tuesday.
The body of a Czech hiker who disappeared 40 years ago after an avalanche in Switzerland has been found on a glacier in the Bernese alps, Bern cantonal police reported on Thursday.
A 59-year-old Swiss woman died following a 200-metre fall while hiking on the Grand Muveran mountain in the Bernese Alps, Valais cantonal police said on Sunday.
A 64-year-old German man died in the Bernese alps on Wednesday morning after slipping on a snowy path and falling several hundred metres to his death, cantonal police confirmed.
A secondary school teacher who intends to take his 15-year-old pupils on an 80-kilometre walk through the night has been warned against the idea by the Swiss army.
From the simply beautiful to the downright barmy, Switzerland's vast array of running races are a great way for expats to integrate into the Swiss way of life, The Local's Caroline Bishop learns.
A woman is being treated in hospital for injuries after being attacked by cows while hiking through a pasture above Saint-Gingolph, a Valais town on the south bank of Lake Geneva.
<p><span lang="EN-GB">A 47-year-old man is awaiting the outcome of his appeal after being convicted of “indecent behaviour” and ordered to pay a fine for walking naked in the mountains in eastern Switzerland.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;">A young Swiss woman has announced her plan to establish the first official naked hiking trail in Switzerland in the rugged hills of Zürich Oberland, but local authorities say they have not yet received a planning application.</span></span></p>
<p>A 13-year-old Boy Scout died in a fall in the Bernese Alps. He was on a hiking expedition with three friends when he slipped and fell 300 metres.</p>
