The Best of the Alps, a tourism promotion consortium founded more than 40 years ago, recently came to town to remind American travel writers that this is where skiing began over 100 years ago and that ...

There was rising optimism in the crisp mountain air after autumn snowfall enabled the ski season to start four weeks early in ...

Perched on a cliffside plateau that was once home to a handful of herdsmen and their animals, the 1960s purpose-built ski ...

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I simply love skiing in Europe’s Alps, and I’ve had my greatest, most memorable winter adventures exploring this lofty, rugged mountain range that spans the heart of Europe. One of my favorite areas, ...

I first stood on skis at age three. Thereafter, my parents took me skiing every winter, because we lived in Munich at the time, and various good valleys in the Austrian Alps were only a short drive ...

Traveling to ski is one of life’s greatest pleasures and a truly unique way to experience a foreign culture. Despite our international differences, anywhere with snow and some mountains speaks the ...

A LUXURY HOLIDAY in the Alps used to involve a helicopter that deposited you on a deserted mountaintop for crowd-free, off-piste skiing. It still can, but a flurry of other high-end offerings is ...

The majority of Americans who envision European mountains imagine postcard vistas of snow-covered peaks and quaint villages ...