On paper, it sounds remote, rugged, and demanding. On the ground, the experience is different. The Tour du Mont Blanc is not wild in the way many hikers imagine. It is structured, supported, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climbers on their way to Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border. Two French mountain climbers have died in an accident in the ...

The Mont Blanc massif looms large over the Chamonix valley. The summit, Western Europe's tallest, reaches 15,777 feet above sea level, and the mountain's shoulders sprawl into Switzerland, Italy and, ...

Mont Blanc in the French Alps is the highest mountain in the European Union. But the massive mountain is shrinking. Here’s why. Mont Blanc is remeasured every two years. Fluctuations are normal, but a ...

The Danish man’s death comes just one day after four other hikers “died from exhaustion” on Mont Blanc after being stranded Getty Another hiker has died on the mountain peak of Mont Blanc in the ...

I’ve always dreamed of climbing Mont Blanc, but I'm rethinking it after the recent incidents there. I’m not a mountaineer, but I’m an avid hiker who’s in great shape. How doable is it for me, and what ...

A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France's Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, eight ...