Latest Alps Stories

LONDON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last two decades, knee injuries have been on the rise among skiers in the French Alps. It is more likely for downhill skiers to experience a lower extremity injury than any other type of injury, whether due to a fall or a collision. According to the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma Association, knee injuries rose from a mere nine percent to a whopping 28 percent during the years from 1994 to 2004. An increase in the use of helmets during skiing has...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Evian(R) Natural Spring Water is celebrating the Evian Masters, the world's largest women's golf tournament, with select Evian guests and top American player, Natalie Gulbis, on Friday, July 17 at Hudson Terrace in New York. The event will offer a unique opportunity for guests to meet the professional golfer and receive a private tutorial on their golf swing before she takes off to compete in the tournament, which takes place in the French Alps,...

Swiss glaciers have lost a lot of ice in recent years due to increased melting. As temperatures climb, so do the fears that the glaciers could one day disappear altogether. Until now it could only be estimated approximately how big the ice volume in the Swiss Alps actually is and how it has changed in recent years. A team of scientists headed by Martin Funk, ETH-Professor at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) at ETH Zurich, however, has now developed a novel...

HEBRON, Ohio, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- - ArmorSource LLC and Eye Tactical Inc Team up to Launch an Advanced Lightweight Protection System (ALPS) for the Current and Future Combat Helmets ArmorSource LLC of Hebron Ohio, one of four DOD approved vendors supplying the Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) to the U.S. Army; recently completed the delivery of 70,000 ACH's and now sets its sights on newly defined Research and Development targets for enhancing Warfighter Safety, Survivability...

A member of the Nepalese national ski team who went missing two weeks ago while training in the French Alps has been found in Paris thanks to a Facebook campaign, the team said on Monday.Uttam Rayamajhi, 17, had vanished from the ski team's base at Les Arcs in southeast France without money or spare clothes on April 27. "(He) has been discovered on the streets of Paris after members of the public recognized him from a Facebook campaign launched to find him," said team secretary Ben...

Italy and Switzerland may be forced to redefine their borders near the Matterhorn due to glacier melting in the Alps, according to a parliamentary draft legislation being prepared in Rome, CNN reported.  Preparation of a bill, initiated by Franco Narducci of Italy's opposition Democratic Party, to redraw the frontier with neighboring Switzerland is underway, his office said Wednesday.  Narducci is a member of the foreign affairs panel in Italy's lower Chamber of Deputies. Foreign...

Scientists said on Tuesday that Antarctica's ice is covering up jagged mountains the size of the Alps, providing new clues about the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts, Reuters reported.First detected by Russian scientists 50 years ago at the heart of the East Antarctic ice sheet using radar and gravity sensors, the experts made the first detailed maps of the Gamburtsev subglacial mountains.Fausto Ferraccioli, a geophysicist at the British Antarctic...

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness of roughly 0.67 meter water equivalent (m w.e.). Some glaciers in the European Alps lost up to 2.5 m w.e.The new still tentative data of more than 80 glaciers confirm the global trend of fast ice loss since 1980. Glaciers with long-term observation series (30 glaciers in...

Europe's shape is in a constant change: The Mediterranean basin is shrinking, the Alps are rising and pushing North, and Scandinavia is still rebounding after having been crushed by the weight of a thick and huge ice sheet in the ice ages. But what did Europe look like in the past, what are the processes controlling all these changes and what has the future in store for us? And how does the topography influence the climate of Europe on geological time scales?The EUROCORES programme...

By ROSHNI K OLIVERA From Platform, where she was heroine opposite Ajay Devgan a long time ago, to the recent Taare Zameen Par - where she played Darsheel Safary's mother, Tisca Chopra has come a long way. In a chat with BT, the actress talks of maturing as an actress, masala movies and how she'd love to wear a chiffon sari in the Alps! How's life post Taare Zameen Par? Like I died and went to heaven! So this is what it means to be a successful actor... Great roles and financial rewards...