The news that the highest ski resort in the French Pyrénées has been declared bankrupt almost went without notice outside of the region. It is not the first time for Puigmal. The ski area already went ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ski touring, splitboarding and winter mountaineering offer a sense of freedom rarely matched elsewhere. But when tragedy strikes, the legal aftermath can be far less liberating. Despite the informal ...

The boot resembles a cycling shoe. Moving the pivot to under the ball of the foot gives the skier a stronger kick. One wonders if they could launch a cycle pedal with the same system, or if something ...

The forecasters from Meteo France Bourg St Maurice have been out on the terrain with members of the CRS from Albertville. They were touring the slopes above Val Cenis in the Haute-Maurienne, in ...

Salomon have issued a recall for its MTN pin binding range. The recall in only for bindings manufactured from May 2022 to March 2023. The recall concerns the possibility of a breakage of the spring ...

A weather whiplash is a series of rapid swings between extremes of weather. Cold and snowy one day, spring like weather with rain at altitude the next. Some climatologists believe that they are linked ...

Due to advances in electronics portable metabolic carts (met carts for short) are becoming more common at prices that clubs, coaches and even individuals can support. Previousl metabolic carts would ...

It is mid February and the French winter holiday period should be in full swing but unseasonably warm weather is taking a toll on ski resorts in France’s lower and mid-mountain regions, raising ...