And on Friday, the region played host to the planet's largest postcard. Laid out on the shrinking Aletsch Glacier, this huge mosaic is actually made from 125,000 drawings and messages about ...

Below us on the Aletsch ... glacier is the wreck of a Piper Cherokee aircraft lost in 1968. Hidden for more than half a century, it re-emerged without warning when the ice melted at the start of ...