France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to ...

However, in the last decade or more, the lack of a real winter and easier access to many other areas in the Alps had led to the big faces in Slovenia becoming deserted. Sometimes there were more ...

Swiss Mountaineer Dani Arnold breaks the record for the quickest ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn mountain in the Alps. The 1,100 meter-high climb usually takes mountain climbers between ...