In 1800, after marching across the Alps into Northern Italy and defeating every enemy in his path, Napoleon spreads his army ...

towers over us in Jacques-Louis David’s colossal canvas “Napoleon Crossing the Alps.” For those who have already googled the painting, you know that Napoleon made the crossing on a beautiful ...

Napoleon Bonaparte favored a northern ... a passage about Hannibal from Polybius’ Histories while climbing in the French Alps. Tomas van Houtryve Indeed, in the spirited tradition of academic ...

In 1800, France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic. Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson ...

The Rhine descends from the Swiss Alps to the area where the three countries ... while the Pfänder cable car is a pain-free way to climb to over 1,000m (00 43 5574 421600; www.pfaenderbahn.at ...

climbing the Anras Oberried, the Tessenberg and Kartitscher Sattel, and the finish in Obertilliach is just seven kilometres from the summit. The 2025 Tour of the Alps ends with a compact but ...

Kilian Jornet Burgada has completed an incredible, unfathomable, almost absurd, feat by climbing all 82 4,000-meter peaks in the Alps in the astonishing time of just 19 days. Starting from Piz Bernina ...

it is the largest north face in the Alps, and towers over the resort of Lleine Scherdegg at its base. Climbing conditions on the Eiger are best during the summer months through September ...

The mountaineers, both from Villach, Austria, were climbing the Cima di Riofreddo mountain in the Julian Alps, which stretch from Northern Italy to Slovenia. Their loved ones attempted to reach ...

In June, a professional skier and his girlfriend fell more than 2,000 feet to their deaths while mountain climbing in the Italian Alps. In January, two Italian hikers were killed in an avalanche ...

I’m standing in a layby with a glorious 360-degree vista of the French Alps and a just-driven V8 ... and a sense that the road is steadily climbing and will continue to do so for quite some ...