Mount Elbrus isn’t technically a mountain — it is an inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, near the Georgian border in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia ...

The High Tatras run for just 25km along the border between Poland and Slovakia but are some of the most beautiful mountains in Europe.

High mountains, snow, lots of lifts and mountains huts to stay and so many routes to explore." The toughest climbs so far, says Emma, have been Elbrus, Russia's highest mountain, and Grauspitz ...

High-mountain lakes were historically fishless due to natural barriers, but historical documents began to record fish stocking in European high-mountain lakes during the 14th and 15th centuries CE.

The "Schöne Aussicht – Bella Vista" refuge by the Italian-Austrian border in winter (Credit: Paul Grüner) Changes that begin in the ice at the tops of high mountain ranges are cascading down ...

In which case Mountain High is probably the Christmas book for you, a sumptuous celebration of the most iconic climbs in Europe which ticks all the boxes eluded to above. Daniel Friebe, European ...

The high mountains are warming faster than the world’s average; temperatures in the high Himalaya, for example, ... and in Europe, the Alps provide critical water supplies.

High in the mountains, this European village stands frozen in time. Lukomir is home to 17 families and medieval traditions. At dusk, sheep return from pasture to Lukomir village on Bjelašnica ...

Changes that begin in the ice at the tops of high mountain ranges are cascading down to lower altitudes. The 3,000m-high border that's melting away - BBC Future Homepage ...