CHAMONIX, France (AP) — A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc may accidentally have caused a slab of ice to snap off Thursday high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche that swept nine European ...

The Alpine town of Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, as the name indicates, home to the highest peak in Europe, will this summer feature a program of mountaineering experiences and cultural events. It will ...

CHAMONIX, France (AP) — They set out before dawn, hoping to conquer a mountaineering classic: Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest peak. But below the prized summit, a climber is believed to have ...

CHAMONIX, France — French officials say that two people remain unaccounted for in the Alpine avalanche that took at least nine lives and injured 12 other people. Officials had earlier said that four ...