For Romanian mountaineers, climbing the country’s highest peak is practically mandatory. We meet Coco in the historic Saxon town of Sibiu. Coco is tall, strong as an ox, has black, curly hair and is ...

Formerly endangered by the illegal clear-cutting of forests and excessive hunting, Southern Carpathia’s magical Fagaras Mountains are now center stage of efforts in Romania toward establishing a new ...

Tucked away in a remote valley in Romania’s Carpathian mountains, a tiny ice hotel has opened to try and attract tourists and their cash to the unspoiled forests of some of Europe’s greatest ...

The Carpathians turn 10 years old this month but it has only been only relatively recently that the Carpathians, which stretch across seven countries in Central and Eastern Europe, have really come ...

Authorities in Romania closed road traffic on the famous Transfăgărășan and Transalpina mountain roads due to bad weather ...

Hikers pause on a ridgeline trail to look for the perfect selfie shot. Will their backdrop for the Instagram-worthy photo be the snow-dusted peaks or alpine meadows dotted with wild daisies and ...

A man who survived a violent confrontation with a bear in the Carpathian mountains in Romania had his leg savaged as he successfully fought the animal off. Andi Bauer, 26 and his partner Lara Booth, ...