Among the globe’s great mountain ranges, the Alps are exceptional, not least because humans have inhabited them for longer, more densely, and in more economically productive ways than any other.

But just why are these mountains so important? And how did the Alps make the continent we know as Europe? In this video, we'll explore the incredibly geography of the mountain range and how it ...

Across the Alps, ice that has locked away human stories for millennia is vanishing, and with it a new, unsettling landscape is emerging. As glaciers retreat and high mountain permafrost thaws, they ...