A snowless future foretold on europe’s tawny slopes

With the Winter Olympics in Cortina approaching, Alex Preston embarks on an adventurous trip to the Dolomites, where the thrill of the slopes is matched only by the pleasures of off-piste living

From frosty slopes and sharp turns to lazy lunches and evening strolls, this French getaway is pure Alpine bliss

Photographer Feargus Cooney shares nearly two decades of learning how to thrive in the Scottish winter mountains, and the series of stunning, sometimes hard-won images that have resulted

Igloo-building, pine needle soup and some seriously high-stakes fire building – Anna Richards heads to the Swiss Jura mountains for a course on extreme cold survival

Dreaming of holidays in the snow and of escapes to the sun

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