As they say on the internet, I was today years old when I learned that a chalet is a remote herdsman's hut or a wooden house ...

At a new log cabin nestled in the Swiss Alps, you can rest assured that you’ll be free from any unwanted human interaction, as the one-person chalet is literally camouflaged into the mountainside.

If you didn’t know know better, you’d think the Refugi Liepthaus in the Alps was just another quaint log cabin from afar. But if you get close, you’ll realize that those ridges on the walls ...

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An official stated that 90% of the village of Blatten, with an estimated ...

Europe Glacier collapses, burying nearly all of Swiss Alpine village “We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud.

One open-air hotel, called Null Stern, eliminates walls and a roof altogether. Located in the middle of the Swiss Alps, it only features a bed with linens. In German, the hotel's name translates ...

Teetering Between Joy and Terror: Extreme Sledding in the Swiss Alps There is nothing tame about sledding in Switzerland, where participants rocket down steep, miles-long slopes, sometimes at night.

A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...

Beneath the perfect airbrushing, Antoine looks a lot like a regular cabin: A box covered in steel rebar and coated ferrocement, sculpted and spray-painted into a rough facsimile of a boulder.

But none of that is the real reason for our languid approach.I’m here in Switzerland’s Val de Bagnes for a Mindful Weekend with 10 strangers, guided by yoga teacher Amélie Bertschy. We’re wearing our ...

The remains of a climber discovered in the Swiss Alps last year have been identified as a British mountaineer who went missing 52 years ago, local police said Thursday.

One open-air hotel, called Null Stern, eliminates walls and a roof altogether. Located in the middle of the Swiss Alps, it only features a bed with linens.