Day two in the Vosges Mountains of eastern France, just outside the town of Bruyeres ... a designation given by the US Army on battle maps in 1944. Curiosity to explore these woods not far ...

May in eastern France's Vosges mountain s can be almost aestival; others, it's stormy and frigid. Distant cow bells interrupted the near-silence, and I unfolded my waterlogged map, peering at a ...

Located in France's eastern Vosges region, the Champ du Feu is a stunning patch of wildlife; a giant meadow that stretches out 1,099 metres above sea level. This vast area can be crossed on ...

Five hikers, all blind or partially-sighted, crossed a mountain range in eastern France last week with the ... days through fields and forests in the Vosges range near the German border.

The apparently pristine Gerardmer lake in the Vosges mountains of eastern France conceals a bleak legacy of 20th-century conflict -- dozens of tonnes of unexploded ordnance from the two world wars.