This video shows the dramatic landscape of Theth National Park, Albanian Alps, Albania, where towering limestone mountains ...

Theth sits in northern Albania’s Albanian Alps (Bjeshkët e Nemuna or “Accursed Mountains”) — substantially remote village of approximately 200-300 permanent residents where traditional Ottoman-era ...

Among the last places in Europe that is just beginning to get the tourists in numbers they deserve, after decades of communism and blood rivalries.

“Hey mate!” a cyclist called to us in an Australian accent as he pedaled by on the rocky dirt road that serves as the main street of the village of Theth deep in Albania’s Dinaric Alps. Along with my ...

Environmentalists have joined locals in the Valbona valley in a campaign to stop the building of six hydropower plants on the wild river, saying it will ruin tourism in the 'Albanian Alps'.

Being dropped off by a helicopter 2,200m up a snow-covered mountainside is a rush of noise and chaotic motion. “I can’t be sure what’s underneath, so I’m not going to land,” our pilot, Detlef Gensel, ...

Violently sharp peaks, azure lakes and the odd bear make Montenegro’s wild Prokletije mountains one of the Balkans hikers’ best-kept secrets. The Albanian, or Montenegrin, Alps are unique within the ...