For thousands of years, the Alps have been the great barrier to ... its passes on winding mountain highways and through alpine road tunnels primarily designed for holiday traffic in the 1960s.

Avalanche warnings were in place on Thursday in the French Alps, after Storm Hans brought heavy snowfall, leading to road and ...

Heavy snowfall and rainfall have led to power outages for thousands of households and the closure of key roads, including the ...

For all their stark beauty, the Alps have always posed a heck of an obstacle to trains traveling between the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Since 1882, the old 9.3-mile Gotthard tunnel has had ...

Don’t confuse it with the Gotthard Tunnel (a 15km railway tunnel opened in 1882) or the Gotthard Road Tunnel (16.9km ... rail freight traffic through the Alps passed through the tunnel ...

The Brennner Base tunnel is an £8 million mega-project involving the construction of a 34-mile tunnel under one of the largest mountain ranges - the Alps ... but the road is one of the busiest ...

Firefighters finally brought a blaze in the Gotthard Alpine road tunnel under control ... faced due to the closure of another tunnel through the Alps - the Mont Blanc - shut since 1999 due to ...

French forecasters have placed the Savoie département in eastern France on avalanche warning on Friday, with mountain ...