When the mountains finally disrobed on our fourth day of skiing, I understood. After a run of low clouds, driving snow and frightening avalanche conditions, the sky opened up, revealing jagged, ...

In Northern Albania, the icy Valbona River flows from deep inside Valbona Valley National Park. The river is home to otters and many species of birds, and is important to people in the Tropojë region ...

Albanian singers and artists joined protests against planned hydropower plants in the Valbona Valley National Park Valbona, Albania - Chanting “Don't touch Valbona” several hundred Albanians and ...

The pristine Valbona Valley in northern Albania is a haven for adventure tourism, but hotels and resorts are popping up and putting at risk its sustainable development, critics say. Fifteen years ago, ...

The Valbona Valley in northern Albania faces destruction from the planned works, despite being within the protected area of the Valbona National Park. LAURA BRIGGS reports Scenery, geology, wildlife ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 It’s one of the last wild mountain ranges in Europe, its isolation creating the feeling that this is a place removed from time. But that may all soon ...

I was hardly surprised by my girlfriend, Rita’s, puzzlement when I tried to convince her we needed to visit Albania’s Accursed Alps, a wild mountain range along the country’s northern border. Most ...

Wild-eyed and animatedly eccentric, with curly hair as unruly as the frisky bullocks in his paddock, Skender is an enigma: part Albanian cow herder, part flamboyant entertainer. Outside his stone hut, ...

The joke goes like this: When Leon Diependaele returned to Albania with six crash pads, he tripled the number in the country. That was in April of 2021. A few weeks later, Elion Çikopano, Enis Shehu ...