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The 15,555-foot peak--the highest in Western Europe--stands as a sentinel to anyone who visits the Chamonix valley, even though the actual summit is typically not visible from the valley floor. The upper points of the Mont Blanc massif--including the spiky Grandes Jorasses--appear differently at every hour of the day based on sunlight and weather patterns that continually tangle and tussle, and occasionally, if briefly, harmonize into a stunning alpenglow that looks more like a watercolor paint...

More than 2,000 runners will on Friday set off for the 20th edition of the Mont Blanc Ultra Trail, a hellish 170-kilometre trail run in weather that is already turning wintry.It was originally designed to be completed by hikers in seven days but to be considered a "finisher" of the Mont Blanc Ultra Trail (UTMB, to give it its French abbreviation) you have to cross the finish line in 46 hours and 30 minutes.

In France’s “The Mountain,” the action gets started with a relatable moment of sudden-onset reconsideration after a conference-room epiphany. Pierre, a bored…

This is Meier's second win this season

Last week Allie McLaughlin jumped off a cliff in Switzerland. "I thought doing my first BASE jump would hype me up for OCC," McLaughlin says. Last year McLaughlin took the race out hot, leading until the final legs before a self-proclaimed "blow up" to finish sixth.

Canada’s Christian Meier biked the Tour de France in 2014, but now he’s topping the podium at trail running’s most prestigious events

30 August: Airlines Free Up Extra Spaces But Customers Still Advised To Check Before They Travel Airline passengers are facing further flight cancellati

Global warming is likely to exacerbate snow shortages on Europe's ski slopes, according to a study. Read more here.

Claire Bannwarth is a trail running machine. Then she ran the Transgrancanaria 128K in the Canary Islands in February (seventh female), followed by the Cursa di Ciclopi 500K in Sicily in April (second female), and the UTMB Ultra-Trail Snowdonia 165K in Wales in May (third female). Bannwarth, who lives in Village-Neuf, France, went on to run Colorado's Hardrock 100 in July (fifth place female), and then win the Tahoe 200 a week later in Lake Tahoe, California.

29 August: Thousands Stranded As Hundreds Of Flights To And From The UK Are Cancelled Travellers to and from the UK continue to face major disruption to