U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade and Allies from six nations took part in a German Mountain Warfare Course in Seinsbach Gorge, ...

High in the German mountains, we locate an abandoned Wehrmacht hideout left untouched since the war. Inside and around it, ...

Visitors to Germany's highest peak will miss the landmark gilded cross at its summit for a few weeks. A helicopter on Tuesday ...

BROCKEN MOUNTAIN Germany (Reuters) - Pity Saint Walpurga, the English nun from Devon. A night of 'devil worship' atop a German mountain is not how she would have wanted to be remembered. When ...

Marching through the Alps all day with a full combat load takes a lot out of you, especially on hot summer patrols at high altitudes. Luckily, Sgt. Mario Thiess, of the German army’s Mountain Infantry ...

It’s the return of the scrotum pole. Just days after a giant penis sculpture vanished from a German mountainside, a similarly phallic structure surfaced at the same site Thursday. The raunchy ...

Anderl Heckmair, 98, a German mountain guide who led the first team to conquer the north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, died Tuesday at a hospital in Oberstdorf, Germany. Heckmair already had ...

You no longer need a mountain or sheer cliff face to enjoy the thrill and challenge of technical climbing. Rock gyms have sprouted up across cities and suburbs around the world, providing a climbing ...

A forest fire in the Harz mountains of northern Germany has been fully extinguished after several days of firefighting work in rugged terrain, according to local officials on Wednesday. The fire had ...

ROME (AP) — Five German mountaineers died after being hit by an avalanche in South Tyrol, in northern Italy, rescuers said on ...