David Myers tests his sanity (and calf muscles) on the Alpenpässe-Weg – a journey of 40 cols and nearly 700km – to discover how the Swiss Alps were lived in and connected long before the combustion engine

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Desert riding veteran Chris Scott may be getting on a bit, but that didn’t stop him exploring North Africa’s highest mountains – armed with just 19bhp and some ibuprofen

Historians claim Nice was named after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, following a military triumph over the local Ligurian tribes. But sitting on my seafront terrace, watching the evening sun sett