Day trip to the 7 Laux with skimania from Lyon to show the mates my local ski area. We arrived at 8h30 but some of the mates were hiring ski gear which took an age and the rest of use were able to do ...

The press and social media have been buzzing about avalanche fatalities in the Alps and beyond this winter with people calling for off piste skiing and ski touring to be more closely regulated or even ...

14C at the ski area at midday. Snow went off around 11am but even before I was pretty slow.

Over the decades, several ski touring grading systems have emerged in France. Some have replaced others, while many continue to coexist today. Developed by G. Blachère in the 1940s, this was one of ...

Two ski tourers have died after being caught in an avalanche in La Chapelle-d’Abondance, in the Haute-Savoie department of the French Alps. The bodies of the two women, aged 51 and 55 and both from ...

A ski tourer was buried by a large avalanche in the Belledonne massif on Sunday, February 22, but was miraculously rescued unharmed after being trapped under more than a metre of snow.

Following today's fatal avalanches in the Isere and Savoie, Météo-France has issued a special avalanche communiqué warning of a high avalanche risk across most of the Northern Alps and parts of the ...

With the return of good weather today skiers were out in force. Despite warnings and yesterday's avalanches the deadly series continued today. If social media is a guide ski tourers, perhaps better ...

A 55-year-old skier lost his life on Tuesday in a massive avalanche that struck in the Mont-Blanc Massif, specifically the Grands Montets ski area on the NW facing Herse sector, according to emergency ...

Behind the calm of the shooting range and the smiles on podiums, the French women’s team has recently been shaken by a series of scandals more reminiscent of a crime column than a winter sports ...

Three skiers were killed in a major avalanche on Friday morning in an off-piste area of the ski domain at Val d'Isère, in the French Alps. The slide occurred in the Solaise sector, to the right of the ...

A woman in her thirties lost her life in an avalanche on Wednesday morning while skiing off-piste in the Chamonix Valley. The incident occurred around 2000 meters altitude on the north face of the ...