The summer season ends soon, but there are still some good days ahead to climb Mont Blanc. If conditions are right, it is a relatively straightforward climb. At the same time, its 4,809m are not ...

It's climbing season in Western Europe, and climbers are flocking to classic mountains including Mont Blanc and the ...

Anyone wanting to summit Europe’s tallest peak, Mont Blanc, may soon have to put up a €15,000 (about $15,300) deposit to cover possible rescue and funeral costs under plans announced by a ...

Four climbers from Italy and South Korea were found dead on the Alps' highest peak of Mont Blanc on Tuesday after they had been missing for three days in bad weather, the local French prefecture ...

A father diagnosed with Parkinson's climbed Mont Blanc with his son - before the pair paraglided down from the summit for charity. Hugh Burnaby-Atkins, 56, who was diagnosed at the beginning of ...

High traffic and easy climbing are a deadly combo in mountaineering, and with over 100 annual deaths and at least 1,400 total recorded deaths on the greater Mont Blanc massif, it has been called ...

A Danish hiker fell to his death Wednesday in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps after slipping from a trail, rescue services said, just one day after four climbers were found dead on the ...

Rocks the size of fridges have been tumbling from Mont Blanc as summer temperatures soar, scaring away many hikers from Western Europe's highest mountain. The heatwaves and drought-like conditions ...

11. Consider saving Mont Blanc for later in your climbing career When you may be fit, strong and experienced enough to climb to the summit via a more challenging route such as the Kuffner Arete, ...

A father diagnosed with Parkinson's climbed Mont Blanc with his son - before the pair paraglided down from the summit for charity. Hugh Burnaby-Atkins, 56, who was diagnosed at the beginning of ...