A survival story worthy of a Hollywood drama took place in the Austrian Alps this week when a German mountain climber was rescued after five days trapped in a 30-metre deep rock fissure.
The quick reflexes of a French tourist saved a coach carrying 22 French visitors from lunging into a ravine in the Austrian Alps, police said on Sunday.
The search for eight hikers missing in the Swiss Alps has been called off, police announced on Saturday, three days after they were lost in a massive landslide.
A small Austrian town sick of people throwing rubbish from cars as they drove through the area have resorted to sticking hundreds of huge yellow arrows alongside the road to show how bad it's got.
With temperatures rising faster in the Alps than the rest of the world, alpine countries are working together to adapt to climate change and hope to set an example.
Two German tourists who ventured up into the Alps in Tyrol, totally unequipped for a mountain adventure, had a lucky escape after getting lost in a snowstorm 3,000 metres above sea level.
