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.

With the return to winter conditions, up to half a meter of fresh snow accompanied by strong winds, there have been a series of avalanches in the French Alps.

It is 60 years since the opening of the Pic Blanc cable car and tunnel piste at l'Alpe d'Huez but what is the story behind this legendary ski run?By 1950 the system of individual promoters running the