For the uninitiated, ski touring involves putting skins on the bottom of one's skis for traction, then trekking up a mountain ...

On this day in 1886, the German-Swiss mountaineer Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was born. We detail his astonishing successes in ...

Troops trained at Camp Hale fought in World War II, then went on to found the Colorado ski industry. "Don't give the enemy ...

National Geographic has named six trails for the pluckiest of hikers, including high-risk Corsican scrambles and wild ...

If your priority is to stay in a picturesque ski resort with a warmly welcoming atmosphere, Austria will deliver. Many of its ski destinations have grown up around traditional farming villages, where ...

Ten years ago Fang Peng understood that water in his hometown of Danjiangkou central China Hubei Province was so clean and ...

Les Arcs is one of the French traffic-free, purpose-built resorts built in the 1960s and 1970s, when large apartment blocks ...