An avalanche has caught a large group of ski tourers at le Mont Dore in the Massif Central. Four of them have been killed, 3 lightly injured, one had triggered his airbag.

A couple of ski tourers, a man and a woman aged in their 40s, have been involved in an avalanche incident on the crête de l’Arpion (2671m) in the Southern French Alps.

Two skiers have been caught in by an on piste avalanche at Praz de Lys Sommand. The Lac piste, a blue run, was open at the time.

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.

Faced with a double whammy of sky-high electricity bills and a second season of poor snow and record temperatures a number of French ski resorts are on the brink of bankruptcy and may join  the 1

I've often thought it would be possible to make a cross country ski binding more like step in mtb binding.

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.

I was sharing the chair lift with a couple of old geezers.

There have been a number of avalanches involving skiers and snowshoers across the French alps today.

Two skiers part of two seperate ski touring groups, have been injured by an avalanche in the Hautes-Alpes.