Alps News

Four helicopters evacuated 150 people trapped in Langtauferer Hotel in Italy after an avalanche, while heavy snow caused disruption across the Alps

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Daniel Roche, who discovered the human remains on Mont Blanc , says it could be of a female passenger from 1966 Boeing 707 flight, as he also discovered one of the plane's four jet engines

The new Gotthard Base Tunnel, which cuts through the Swiss Alps, is the world's longest rail tunnel

Open to the public from this season, Oasi Zegna is a privately developed nature park in Biella in North Italy

Mont Blanc glacier is the most visible symbol in France of climate change, which officials from almost 200 nations will discuss in Paris in December

Crompton Greaves will be excluded from Nifty Midcap 50 with effect from 28 September 2015

The fact that Lufthansa officials were aware that the pilot suffered from depression raises questions about its screening process for pilots

Prosecutors offer no motive for why co-pilot Andreas Lubitz apparently took the controls of the jet and deliberately set it veering down from cruising altitude

Hopes of survival are bleak for the 150 passengers onboard the Germanwings' Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, even as rescue operations got under way at the site of the accident.