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 ...

LONDON, Oct. 10. -- Work is progressing rapidly on the Loetschberg Tunnel through the Berner Alps, which practically is a continuation of the Simpton Tunnel. It was planned in order to give the ...

The Alps in France, Italy, and Switzerland are grappling with heavy snowfall and rainfall, which have caused power outages ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although snow is not uncommon in the Alps in April, the disruption left thousands of homes in the Savoie region of eastern ...