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Illustration - The Alps in Summer

FRANCE, HAUTES-ALPES (05), VALLEE ETROITE. MONT THABOR PEAK IN THE CERCES MASSIF IN AUTUMN MARKS THE END OF THE VALLEE ETROITE VALLEY. MAJOR MOUNTAIN PEAK IN THE GR57 HIKING TRAIL OF THE SOUTHERN FRENCH ALPS Photo by Francois Roux/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial View of France

FRANCE, HAUTES-ALPES (05), CHAMPSAUR. PANORAMIC AERIAL SUMMER VIEW ON THE VILLAGE OF SAINTE-LEGER-LES-MELEZES (LEFT) AND LES FAIX (RIGHT) WITH AUTANES MOUNTAIN PEAKS. SOUTHERN FRENCH ALPS Photo by Francois Roux/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - French Riviera

FRANCE. ALPES-MARITIMES (06) SOUTHERN PRE-ALPS. VIEW FROM MONT VIAL 1550 M Photo by Robert Palomba/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Norikura Skyline in central Japan

A bus runs along the 15-kilometer Norikura Skyline in the Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, offering extraordinary views of Mt. Norikura at the southern edge of the Northern Japan Alps, as the road opens on May 15, 2025, after a wintertime hiatus.

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 5, 2015 - Flowers lay at a memorial stele made of stone that reads 'In commemoration of the victims of the plane accident on 24 March 2015' in English, German, Spanish and French, on Easter Sunday in Le Vernet, France, April 5, 2015. Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed near near the village of La Vernet in the French Alps, southern France on 24 March 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geo

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 5, 2015 - Flowers lay at a memorial stele made of stone that reads 'In commemoration of the victims of the plane accident on 24 March 2015' in English, German, Spanish and French, on Easter Sunday in Le Vernet, France, April 5, 2015. Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed near near the village of La Vernet in the French Alps, southern France on 24 March 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geo

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated March 25, 2015 - Rescue workers and gendarmerie via helicopter and French military personel continue their search operation near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 25, 2015 in La Seyne les Alpes, France. Germanwings flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf has crashed in Southern French Alps. All 150 passengers and crew are thought to have died . - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geoffroy Cournut/ABACAPRESS.CO

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated March 25, 2015 - Rescue workers and gendarmerie via helicopter and French military personel continue their search operation near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 25, 2015 in La Seyne les Alpes, France. Germanwings flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf has crashed in Southern French Alps. All 150 passengers and crew are thought to have died . - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geoffroy Cournut/ABACAPRESS.CO

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated March 25, 2015 - Rescue workers and gendarmerie via helicopter and French military personel continue their search operation near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 25, 2015 in La Seyne les Alpes, France. Germanwings flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf has crashed in Southern French Alps. All 150 passengers and crew are thought to have died . - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geoffroy Cournut/ABACAPRESS.CO

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UNESCO "eco park" list

KOFU, Japan - Hirofumi Nakagomi, mayor of Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture, receives the news that UNESCO has decided to add Japan's Southern Alps mountain range to its list of biosphere reserves, known as eco parks in Japan, at the city hall around 1 a.m. on June 12, 2014. The 302,474-hecatre region straddles Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka prefectures. UNESCO also decided to add the Tadami beech forest in Fukushima Prefecture to the list.

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Rhone Glacier

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2007 shows the Rhone Glacier in the Alps, southern Switzerland. The area of the glacier decreased to 1,900 square kilometers in 2012, down nearly 40 percent since the late 1960s to early 1970s, Swiss experts said May 14, 2013.

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Norikura Skyline in central Japan

Norikura Skyline, a 15-kilomter mountainous sightseeing road that offers extraordinary views of Mt. Norikura at the southern edge of the Northern Japan Alps, opens in the Gifu Prefecture city of Takayama, central Japan, on May 15, 2022, after a wintertime hiatus.

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Norikura Skyline in central Japan

Norikura Skyline, a 15-kilomter mountainous sightseeing road that offers extraordinary views of Mt. Norikura at the southern edge of the Northern Japan Alps, opens in the Gifu Prefecture city of Takayama, central Japan, on May 15, 2022, after a wintertime hiatus.

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Norikura Skyline in central Japan

Norikura Skyline, a 15-kilomter mountainous sightseeing road that offers extraordinary views of Mt. Norikura at the southern edge of the Northern Japan Alps, opens in the Gifu Prefecture city of Takayama, central Japan, on May 15, 2022, after a wintertime hiatus.

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German airline jet crashes in southern France

A gendarme (C) speaks to reporters in Seyne-les-Alpes in southern France on March 24, 2015, after a Germanwings plane crashed in the French alps in southern France. All 150 people on board were feared dead in the crash of an Airbus A320 jet operated by the German budget airline. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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UNESCO 'eco park' list

KOFU, Japan - Hirofumi Nakagomi, mayor of Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture, receives the news that UNESCO has decided to add Japan's Southern Alps mountain range to its list of biosphere reserves, known as eco parks in Japan, at the city hall around 1 a.m. on June 12, 2014. The 302,474-hecatre region straddles Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka prefectures. UNESCO also decided to add the Tadami beech forest in Fukushima Prefecture to the list. (Kyodo)

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Mt. Kaikoma in Japan

File photo taken May 8, 2019, from Hokuto in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, shows Mt. Kaikoma in the Southern Alps. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo