Most famous as the hometown of Shakespeare’s tragic couple Romeo and Juliet, Verona isn’t typically one of the first cities ...

On a rail journey through Switzerland’s Engadine Alps, dramatic Alpine wonders unfold at every turn, with glaciers carving ...

The white Timorasso grape of Piedmont in Italy was almost extinct in 1987. Today its wine is making a deserved comeback, with ...

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The sheer variety is astonishing, from the sub-Arctic plateau of the Cairngorms, where many of Scotland’s highest mountains are found, and the tight-knit peaks and ridges of the West Highlands ...

By comparison, Mount Everest stands at an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 meters) above sea level. The tallest mountain on Earth — measured not by elevation above sea level but rather from base ...

It is well known that Mount Washington in New Hampshire is renowned for its extreme and erratic weather patterns. Some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded happened atop that 6,288-foot mother of ...

Direct links between the UK and Switzerland are under discussion – here's some inspiration for flight-free getaways ...

A man has died after falling from the UK's highest mountain. The 22-year-old and another climber both fell in the Moonlight Gully area of Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday.

The Superman roller coaster that was once the tallest and fastest in the world has been exposed to a lethal dose of kryptonite and will never fly again at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Six Flags Magic ...

I’m a huge fan of the Canary Islands and from these lofty heights, I can make out five of them – Tenerife (with towering Teide, Spain’s highest mountain), La Gomera, El Hierro, Gran Canaria and, of ...