A 54 year old man has been killed by an avalanche above the Buet village in Vallorcine close to Chamonix. The victim, qualified as a mountain leader, was local to the area.

Hypster’s gotta brand new bagSo the trips with the local alpine club turned out to be as fun as a visit to a German dentist on a trip from Latin America.

The recent snow (up to 25cm in the French Northern Alps) has improved the skiing conditions but the wind has stripped much of the fresh snow on exposed slopes leaving hard, icy surfaces that have surp

"It was like a battlefield, so I said to myself there is very little chance that some of them are alive" - Tommaso Piccioli, one of the three survivors of the Haute-Route disaster that killed 7 of his

Another accident involving a piste groomer and ski tourers has occured. This time on the pistes of Bernex in the Chablais.

Announcing the last minute cancellation of the Trans-jurassienne long distance cross country skiing race today Marie-Guite Dufay, president of the regional government spoke of "adapting to the post cl

Meteo France has put the departments of the Savoie and Haute-Savoie on orange alert for avalanches and has warned that with the heavy rain and thaw on Sunday that infrastructure could be affected or r

Stability tests on the 29th at the  Tête du Torraz in the Aravis at 1810 meters altitude. The slab was due to drifting and was resting on a weak layer of angular grains.

With a return to better weather following fresh snow in the French Alps there has been a series of avalanche incidents including two fatalities at La Toussuire, part of the les Sybelles domain in the

The rescue service have been involved in a number of avalanche incidents in the French Alps today.