Atop a pretty mountain peak at the edge of the Italian Alps lies an unexpected sight: an abandoned hotel that has seen better days. The Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori sits on Monte Tre Croci at an ...

This lovely old village at the foot of the Alps’ highest mountain, Mont Blanc, has a relatively small ski area, but ...

The Italian media are calling it a hecatombe-- massacre. At least 83 people have died in the Italian Alps between June 21 and July 23, and five others are missing. That averages out to almost three ...

In 1991, two hikers in the Italian Alps stumbled upon a frozen body and changed history. The man they found, later named Ötzi, had been preserved in ice for over 5,000 years. His body carried Stone ...

Authorities said it's unclear what caused them to fall, proposing that it might have been the result of human error or a potential rockslide Getty Two Austrian ...

The body of a World War I soldier was found in a melting glacier in the Italian Alps, officials said. Ministero Difesa Human remains discovered on the Vedretta di Lares glacier in the Italian Alps ...

This sumptuous lodge sits high above a resort village — but is dwarfed by a legendary mountain. Some 325 feet above the town of Cervinia, Italy, and in full view of the Matterhorn, a chalet known as ...

Two hikers trekking across the Italian Alps on snowshoes were killed when an avalanche crashed down the slope near the border with Switzerland on Sunday, rescue officials said. The avalanche was ...

ROME - Some 17 people remain unaccounted for a day after a huge chunk of an Alpine glacier broke off and slammed into hikers in northern Italy, officials said Monday. At least six people died and 9 ...

Les Combes, Italy - Pope Benedict is in the Italian Alps, vacationing in the same spot favored by his predecessor. John Paul the Second spent many summer vacations in the mountain chalet in the shadow ...