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Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger was killed Monday in an avalanche in her native Switzerland, just days after her 26th birthday. The country’s winter sports federation, Swiss-Ski, announced Tuesday ...

Two skiers were killed and another injured Sunday when an off-trail avalanche tore through a popular freeride route on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif near the French-Swiss border, officials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least five people were injured after a regional train derailed in the Swiss Alps in inclement weather on Monday morning, ...

A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers can break apart in destructive ...

The three heli-skiiers who were killed in an avalanche north of Terrace, B.C., over the weekend were Swiss nationals, according to the Swiss Consulate General in Vancouver. A group of four people were ...