With the avalanche risk at ⅘ (HIGH) in parts of the Hautes-Alpes tomorrow following fresh snow the head of the Briançon PGHM (mountain rescue services), Captain Nicolas Colombani, has echoed the warni

Fancy getting away from it all ski touring but too posh to skin? Here's an alternative, snowkite touring.

A damning report by French government auditors has warned that many Pyrenean ski areas are too small to survive.

A complicated and extensive search and rescue operation for a couple of missing snowshoers above the commune of Laus near Briançon in the Hautes-Alpes has recovered the bodies of the victims close to

If the avalanche risk is too high, or you fancy a change.

With 25 deaths in avalanches so far this season Arnaud Trinquier, director of the Tignes ski pistes give some advice about off piste safety.

It is all change in Chamonix for the second ChamLines of the winter.

25 avalanche victims so far this season in France. 11 in the Hautes-Alpes alone.

A ski instructor from la Plagne has triggered a large and deep avalanche in the Canadiens couloir on the North Face of the Bellecôte above the ski resort.

Sorin Radu was off piste in the Reteza range in the south of the Carpathian mountains in Romania. On Mont Papusa to be precise.