Hidden away from the hustle and bustle of Germany's cities, this lake is one of Europe's best-kept Alpine secrets.

At the start of November 2019 German alpinist Thomas Huber frees his multi-pitch climb Stone Age (8b+) on Untersberg in Berchtesgaden Alps, Germany. 25 years after that landmark climb Huber has now ...

On Hoher Göll in the Berchtesgadener Alps, German rock climber and alpinist Ines Papert has repeated Scaramouche (300m, 8a), a rarely repeated climb put up by the Huber brothers in 1989. Repeating an ...

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Berchtesgaden is a charming Bavarian town nestled in the Alps, near the Austrian border. Once a popular getaway for Bavarian royalty, it gained international attention when Adolf Hitler selected it as ...

Berchtesgaden is a charming town in Bavaria, located in the scenic German Alps close to Austria. It once served as a royal retreat and rose to prominence when Adolf Hitler made it his summer residence ...

Hitler's former holiday home, the so-called Eagle's Nest, is now a memorial with a view out of the Berchtesgaden mountains. Bergerlebnis Berchtesgaden/dpa The Kehlsteinhaus on Obersalzberg, once a ...

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