alps


A chronology of key events

A hospital chaplain is recreating a road trip he made more than 50 years ago to the Swiss Alps.

Cern scientists in the Alps have hailed the momentous scientific milestone which will recreate the conditions of the Big Bang. But celebrations are also under way in the UK.

Two Guernsey climbers are on the final leg of their attempt to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in the Alps.

Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life in the high mountains.

A 70-year-old mountaineer who died during a climbing expedition in the Italian Alps is named by the Foreign Office.

A 19-year-old British man falls 160ft to his death from a rock face in Chamonix near the French Alps.

Fears are growing for a science teacher from Greater Manchester who has gone missing while hiking in the French Alps.

Carlos Sastre retains the Tour de France's yellow jersey after stage 18 from Bourg-d'Oisans to Saint Etienne.

Spain's Carlos Sastre takes the Tour de France's yellow jersey after an impressive victory at l'Alpe d'Huez.

Tour de France leader Frank Schleck keeps the yellow jersey after a gruelling mountain stage in the Alps.

Australian Simon Gerrans wins stage 15 of the Tour de France, as Luxembourg's Frank Schleck takes the yellow jersey in the Alps.

Australian Simon Gerrans wins stage 15 of the Tour de France, as Luxembourg's Frank Schleck takes the yellow jersey in the Alps.

Stage 14, 194.5km from Nimes to Digne-les-Bains, takes the Tour to the foothills of the Alps.

Dunfermline have taken German striker Joseph Laumann on trial to their training camp in the Austrian Alps.

A train strikes a school bus in the French Alps, killing six children and an adult and injuring dozens, police say.

An open verdict is recorded into the death of a cadet who disappeared during a trip to the French Alps.

A woman from Kent who died in a climbing accident in the Chamonix mountain region of the French Alps is named.

A woman from Kent dies in a climbing accident in the French Alps, the Foreign Office confirms.

The bodies of five French mountaineers hit by an avalanche are found in Italy's northwestern Alps.

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