A Scottish wingsuit flyer has died during a jump in the Swiss Alps. British champion Liam Byrne, 24, was critically injured on the Gitschen mountain on Saturday after taking off from 7,874ft (2,400m). Mr Byrne, from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, featured in a recent BBC documentary called The Boy Who Can Fly. He was described as a...
The Swiss village of Blatten was partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley, flooding plains and destroying houses. Drone footage showed a large section of the Birch glacier collapsing at about 15:30 (14:30 BST) on Wednesday. The avalanche of mud that swept over the village of Blatten, creating an...
A British man has died after he was buried by an avalanche at a ski resort in the French Alps, local officials have said. The man, 27, was near the roadside at the Val Thorens resort when he was swept up and carried 15 metres (50ft) by snow on Thursday morning, a local prosecutor said....
A Swiss and Austrian climbing pair have shattered the speed record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains – the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Switzerland’s Nicolas Hojac and Austria’s Philipp Brugger shaved nearly ten hours off the previous record set more than two decades ago. Read full article at...
Four people, including the grandparents of Emile Soleil, have been arrested over the two-year-old’s disappearance and death in the French Alps in July 2023. The two other people arrested on suspicion of voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse are adult children of Emile’s grandparents, prosecutors said in a statement. The grandparents’ lawyer, Isabelle Colombani,...