Formerly endangered by the illegal clear-cutting of forests and excessive hunting, Southern Carpathia’s magical Fagaras Mountains are now center stage of efforts in Romania toward establishing a new ...

The first time I laid eyes on the impressive rock formations called sfinxul and babele (Romanian for “the sphinx” and “the old women” ), I was on a visit home during a college vacation. As my father ...

The Transalpina is Romania’s highest road, rising through the Carpathians like a silver ribbon. The air is cool, the turns ...

Balea Lake lies high in Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains, surrounded by steep alpine slopes and a dramatic mountain atmosphere.

Three tourists climbing Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains died this past weekend in separate accidents after slipping hundreds of ...

Bucharest – In the first day of a new WWF campaign more than 4,400 people signed a petition to put the most valuable mountain rivers in Romania under legal protection. They are threatened by different ...

Vlad Capusan remembers his friend and climbing partner Zsolt Török, one of Romania’s foremost mountaineers who lost his life in a climbing accident on 14 August 2019 in the Făgăraș mountains. It's ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) -A motorcyclist was mauled to death by a bear on a road in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania on Thursday, emergency service officials said, the latest attack in the country with ...