An aerial view shows the Les Diablerets ski region of western Switzerland, where rescuers searched for two skiers believed to have been buried in an avalanche Wednesday.
Shepherd Markus Nyffeler walked with his flock through a snow-covered field near Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday. Mr. Nyffeler has been a professional herdsman for the past 20 years and owns hundreds of sheep.
Ice covered a car at a boardwalk near Lake Geneva in Geneva Monday. Overwhelmed by deep snow and harsh temperatures, some countries in Europe closed schools and struggled to run transit systems amid the deadly cold snap.
Snow covered a church, pictured from an aerial view, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday. The World Economic Forum opens Wednesday in the resort area.
A person on a ski tour took a wrong turn and ended up on the roof of a snow-covered house in Seewis, Switzerland.
Birds flew below a helicopter that transported a Christmas tree to Federal Square in Bern, Switzerland.
A fire rages near Viege, Switzerland April 26 as nine helicopters and 300 men battle a forest fire near the town in the south of drought-stricken Switzerland. Several Swiss cantons imposed bans on lighting fires in or near forested areas amid one of the worst droughts to hit the country in 150 years.
A miner climbed on excavated rocks after a giant drill machine broke through a section of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland Wednesday. Crossing the Alps, the world’s longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016.
A tattoo artist draws on a visitor’s back during the 15th Tattoo Convention in Geneva, Switzerland.
A man competed in the fourth stage of the Grande Odyssée dog-sledding race between Morzine and Champery, through the Alps on the border of France and Switzerland.
A long exposure photograph shows a tree in front of the snow-covered Bernese alps and the city of Thun in Oberbuetschel, Switzerland on November 30, 2010.
