Bodies of climbers who vanished 34 years ago found in Swiss Alps
The bodies of two climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been found, freed from a melting glacier, police said.
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The bodies of two climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been found, freed from a melting glacier, police said.
Investigators are still trying to find victims of the deadly fire at a Swiss ski resort that killed 40 people and left more than 100 others injured on New Year's Eve.
In 2015, Anderson Cooper reported from the Swiss Alps, where 60 Minutes cameras captured an extreme sportsman using a three-sport technique for the first time to descend the Eiger, one of the most forbidding mountains in the world.
Five cross-country skiers - including members of the same family - were found dead along a high Alpine ridge.
After more than five decades, a relative was found and a DNA sample allowed them to identify the British mountaineer, police said.
Six mountaineers have plunged to their deaths or been killed by rockslides in the southern Swiss Alps in a matter of days, police said.
Authorities were alerted that the 26-year-old man was missing, and rescuers in a helicopter found his body on a glacier.
As shifting weather patterns ground gondolas, a massive snow deficit in the Alps may leave Italy's most populous region gasping for water again this summer.
In 2010, Scott Pelley traveled to the Swiss Alps, where 60 Minutes was given the kind of access that's usually reserved for kings and captains of industry at the World Economic Forum.
A 1.2-mile-long train broke the world record for the longest passenger train this weekend in the Swiss Alps.