I recently compared two optical heart-rate monitors, the inexpensive Coospo HW706 armband and the Amazfit Active 2 smartwatch, against a Polar H10 chest strap. The H10 is useful here as a reference.

When the shareholders of the Braunwald ski lifts in Switzerland voted in August 2026 to end ski operations, one of the immediate concerns was not simply the loss of skiing.

Many of us have years of training data sitting in silos such as Strava without really doing anything useful with it.

One of the most important gateways to the eastern Écrins has been cut off after exceptional flooding destroyed large sections of the road between Ailefroide and the Pré de Madame Carle.

This video shows you how to identify ventilatory thresholds VT1 and VT2 (approximately LT1 and LT2) without expensive lab equipment.

The North Atlantic is unusually warm again in 2026, and for skiers in the French mountains that may be more important than it first appears.

A number of articles and videos have recently questioned the whole Zone 2 training phenomenon, often from the same media outlets that were presenting Zone 2 as a silver bullet only a short while ago.

The Polar H10 has long been regarded as one of the benchmarks for consumer heart-rate measurement.

A 70-year-old ski tourer died on Saturday 6 June after being caught in a snow slide above the Les Arcs ski area in Savoie.

The 2025 2026 avalanche season in France was marked by an unstable snow-pack structure that led to a sharp rise in fatal accidents across the Alps.