Get to know Annecy, an enchanting French town framed by the Alps with a medieval, canal-filled village and a glittering lake.

A French skier has just become the first person to climb and ski every mountain in the Alps higher than 4,000m (12,000 feet). After chipping away at the project for 15 years, Vivian Bruchez scaled the ...

Sixty-nine years ago today, the pioneering French alpinist and ski instructor Louis Lachenal died in a crevasse in the Alps. Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in the world to summit an ...

KITZBUEHEL, Austria, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The French alpine team endured a tough day on the Austrian slopes of Kitzbuehel during Friday's World Cup Super-G race after Alexis Pinturault had to be ...

In the summer of 2022, French alpinist and IFMGA-certified mountain guide Christophe Profit removed four large metal stanchions from the slopes of 15,774-foot Mont Blanc. The stakes--used by guides as ...

Today, July 25, would be the 104th birthday of Lionel Terray. The celebrated French alpinist climbed routes from the Alps to the Himalaya to the Andes, and also wrote one of the all-time great ...

Tucked away in a cozy corner of Aspen, the French Alpine Bistro, fondly known as the Creperie, feels like stepping into a rustic European hideaway. As I walked through the door, I was greeted by the ...

Jumping off a mountain strapped to a parachute on a late-season ski trip to France's Les 3 Vallees region affords ...