Esther Larios Wiget did not intend to be a mountain guide. Encouraged by her brother, she moved forward down this path in her twenties. Today, extreme long-distance tours are no longer part of her ...

Portrait of a unique breed of cows made famous as early as 1917 by its fights in the Valais region of Switzerland. Once simply called "horned animals", they were so numerous at the foot of the Dent ...

In the North of Ecuador, the Los Yaltes ecological reserve is an endangered forest. French film-maker Philippe Moulin has dedicated 25 years of his life to saving Los Yaltes from deforestation, ...

Olivier Favre, aka Milon, has been into extreme steep snowboarding his whole life. The Swiss snowboarder from Les Diablerets was among the very best in the first editions of the Freeride World ...

5 x 26' - This reality TV show follows a mythical itinerary in the Heart of the Alps : Chamonix-Verbier-Zermatt. 5 men and 7 women who have never met and are not seasoned mountain climbers rise to ...

Kurt Moser has been travelling through the mythical mountains of the Dolomites to capture its wilderness thanks to pictures resulting from a particularly delicate technique: the ambrotype. Kurt only ...

Anyone looking for the soul of Corsica should be heading straight to the GR20 trail, far from the coast swarming with tourists. Walking the GR20 trek remains the royal way to discover real ...

Visit the Mont-Blanc Massif, today and yesterday, with Hubert Gay-Couttet, a member of a family that has photography in the blood. Photos in hand, he walks in the footsteps of his forebears, who ...

Acute mountain sickness is as much a problem for experienced alpine climbers and mountaineers as for tourists on a trekking tour. Symptoms range from simple headaches with nausea to complications ...

Crans-Montana has always looked like a duplicate of Monaco, if you replace the beach by the mountains, that is. The wrld-famous resort embodies a certain idea of Switzerland, with prosperity, calm ...