Alagna is one of the Alpine towns which have played a crucial role in the history of the mountaineering.

Florjančič was born in the Alpine town of Bled in present-day Slovenia.

At that time she was still living in an Alpine town surrounded by mountain-tops silhouetted in the distance.

A blizzard swept through this Alpine town in early morning, and of all people, the 27-year-old Tomba stood to gain.

An Alpine town of fin-de-siècle villas and grand hotels that is stuffed to the gunwales with ambitious skiers and boarders.

Moncler took its name from the abbreviation of Monestier-de-Clermont, an Alpine town near Grenoble.

The two limousines used in maneuvers had to be driven to a place called Valtournanche, several miles northwest of the Alpine town of Champoluc.

They watch each other on television, chat via cellphone and occasionally meet in some Alpine town or city for a few days.

Most European Alpine towns and districts are equipped with one or more Unimog snow blowers to clear narrow mountain roads that have drifted closed.

"I won't say it was a misjudgment," Mr. Pilson said at a dinner in the Alpine town of Meribel.