A hiker from Berlin fell to her death during poor weather conditions in the Austrian Alps on Monday evening. Rescuers first found her on Tuesday morning.
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.
After six years of planning and construction, the new cable car to be inaugurated on Thursday will take visitors up nearly 3,000 metres to Zugspitze, the highest peak in the country.
A survival story worthy of a Hollywood drama took place in the Austrian Alps this week when a German mountain climber was rescued after five days trapped in a 30-metre deep rock fissure.
Operation of the new cable car which will take visitors up the 2,962 metre-high Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, is set to start in about ten weeks’ time. But not everyone is looking forward to it.
Mountain rescue crews have located the body of a climber who fell to his death while walking alone on Germany’s third highest mountain in mid-August.
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 world-famous cable car taking tourists up to the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, is to be taken down and replaced by a more modern transport system.
A Bundeswehr (German army) soldier has been severely injured after the tank he was riding in crashed 50 metres down an embankment after going off course in bad weather.
As the one year anniversary of the Germanwings disaster approaches, the German school which lost 16 students is hoping another language exchange can help to heal the wounds.
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Seven people, including four Germans, were killed Tuesday when an avalanche swept them away in the French Alps, a local official told AFP, one of the deadliest snowslides to hit France over the past decade.
Animal rights activists have demanded that one of the signature sounds of the Bavarian Alps – the gentle ringing of distant cow bells – be brought to an end, claiming it is cruel to the animals.
Lufthansa Tuesday defended its treatment of families of victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps, saying its compensation offer had gone "well beyond" what was required by law.
An explorer who has lain injured one kilometer underground in Germany’s deepest cave since Sunday is able to be moved, according to doctors who reached the researcher for the first time on Wednesday evening.
Munich is preparing a bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, but first the plan must pass a referendum. And one environmental group could stop play if it refuses to lend its support.
The number of deaths seen in the German Alps may be have fallen to an all-time-low in 2012, but a mountaineering group warned on Friday that walkers are pushing their limits. The number of SOS calls has tripled over the past decade.
Climate change is shortening Alpine winters, a new German study suggested on Thursday, endangering plant species and leaving peaks snowy for less of the year - to the dismay of environmentalists and skiers alike.
A 73-year-old German man died of hypothermia after being caught out by unexpected heavy snow in the Austrian Alps with a fellow retiree who survived, police said on Saturday.
