The dramatic impact of climate change on the Alpine ecosystemis impossible to overlook, says Steffen Reich, who heads the German Alpine Association's (DAV) nature conservation unit. Glaciers are ...

There are more than 1,000 hütten scattered through the Eastern Alps, most of which are associated with either the Austrian Alpine Club or German Alpine Club. While a summer hiking in the Austrian ...

In October 2014 Simon Gietl, Daniel Tavernini and Vittorio Messini carried out a series of alpine ascents in the Minya Konka massif, Sichuan, China. Acting on information from a 2012 German Alpine ...