Like the people of the Swiss Alps, the Langtangpa have been living with avalanches for centuries, and they have used both ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.

The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps has buried and partially destroyed a centuries-old village, the BBC ...