Rescue crews have found the body of a missing British hiker buried in the snow of the Italian alps, but a search for his friend was suspended by poor weather conditions.

The weather in the Alps is affected by different temperatures of air coming from the north, west and south. These conditions create different types of climate, depending on height - the higher up ...

The South-West and South-East regions showed an ... Slovenia and part of the Austrian Alps.' At higher elevations, sufficiently cold temperatures mean that snowfall levels have largely remained ...

Six skiers, including two guides, have died after being caught in an avalanche in the French Alps on Sunday. The disaster happened at the Armancette glacier, near Mont Blanc in south-eastern ...