The Best of the Alps, a tourism promotion consortium founded more than 40 years ago, recently came to town to remind American travel writers that this is where skiing began over 100 years ago and that ...

If you’re planning a ski trip to Europe with kids, the Austrian Alps have the best ski schools and perks like free ski passes. Plus: family-friendly doesn’t mean adults won’t be pampered, too.

The documentary "More than a Route" portrays ecologist and climber Lena Mueller and her new "route choice": by fair means by abandoning the car.

When picturing the Alps, most travellers conjure snowy scenes. Europe’s most extensive mountain range has become defined by its world-class ski resorts, regular host to the Winter Olympics. But until ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...