Sitting just north of Mont Blanc, Chamonix, also known as Chamonix Mont Blanc, is a commune in southeastern France's Auvergne Rhone Alpes region. In the company of the most famous mountain in the ...

Perched on a cliffside plateau that was once home to a handful of herdsmen and their animals, the 1960s purpose-built ski ...

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

The day is warm, the sky blue and we’ve just had lunch at l’Alpage de Pré Rosset, a restaurant set in an 18th-century farm building with views of Mont Blanc. The place might look rustic, but it offers ...

While US hikers have to be wary of grizzly bears, elks and bison, it seems hikers in the French alps have been facing a different threat recently, with two incidents involving Pyrenean mountain dogs, ...

Two skiers are dead following an avalanche on Mont Blanc, France's highest mountain, and another hiker was killed on another slope in the French Alps, according to local authorities. The Haute-Savoie ...

French ski mountaineering champion Adèle Milloz and an unidentified female companion died on Friday while they were climbing on the Mont-Blance mountain range in the French Alps, according to an ...

In this photo provided by Contamines Montjoie, an avalanche rolling down the Armancette glacier in Contamines-Montjoie, France, in the Haute-Savoie region, some 30 kilometers (almost 20 miles) ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — The death toll from Sunday’s ...