Three-time Danish time trial champion Lars Ytting Bak perfectly executed a final attack to win stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia this afternoon.

In the Cordillera Real range in Bolivia he came down some slopes by bicycle

Cycle of freezing and thawing sees lumps of rock falling off the mountain, say scientists

Swiss prosecutors were last night examining the wreckage of the Belgian coach that ploughed head-on into an alpine tunnel wall on Tuesday night, killing 28 people – including 22 schoolchildren – in one of the worst bus crashes in the country's history.

Coach hits kerb and collides head on with tunnel wall as it returns from school ski trip

Snow Report

A French state prosecutor yesterday launched a criminal investigation into the "Nazi stag night" attended by the Tory MP, Aidan Burley, in December.

The hotel on the other side of Lake Geneva cashed in on the delicious shamelessness of it. They hired out binoculars so that tourists could gawp pruriently at the Villa Diodati and its scandalous summer menage of the Shelleys; the "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" Byron, and Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's half-sister, who had slept with both poets and was carrying Byron's baby. 

Davos is the highest city in Europe, St Moritz is all about high style – but both have epic skiing, says Leslie Woit

Nearly 1,000 British tourists are trapped in a ski resort after parts of the Austrian Alps were cut off by unprecedented snowfall.

Polo, the ski-shop manager at Les Barmes de l'Ours, Val d'Isère's swankiest hotel, is the kind of fellow one finds only in winter-sports resorts and Bond movies: charming, cooler than cool, with an impressive air of worldliness for a man whose horizons are all jagged and snow capped.

Police say an avalanche has killed two people in the Austrian Alps. 

After five years away from the slopes, Tracey Davies found the prospect of heading back to the piste terrifying. But a chance encounter taught her a new way to cope with her nerves

Altapura, Val Thorens