From its boulder-smashing Alpine rivers to its startlingly blue mountain lakes, Austria is ripe for adventures ... pine forests and timber chalets clinging to cow-nibbled pastures.

"When your hand fits into a crack in the foundation, there is need for action," said Georg Unterberger, who is in charge of mountain refuges and trails at the Austrian Alpine club. The trails up ...

Lake Resia - or Reschensee as it is known in German - lies in South Tyrol, the Alpine region that borders Austria and Switzerland. Photos shared on social media show steps, cellars and walls on ...