Ski and Snowboard News

2013

February

• Snow: Too much of a good thing?

• And the snowiest spot in the world is?

• The Ghost Resorts that Haunt the Alps

January

• Fantastic finale of the Grande Odyssee

• Multivictim searches, and the best transceiver is?

• Grande Odyssée round-up

• New Year’s avalanche round-up

• 9th edition of the Grande Odyssée

2012

December

• A Life Ascending on iTunes

• Meteo France issues Orange Avalanche Alert for Alps

• Ortovox recalls 3+ beacon

• First Italian avalanche death of the season

• Avalanche in the Haute-Savoie

• Avalanche Alert for the Alps and Pyrenees

• Tignes Avalanche buries two skiers

• Reglueing climbing skins

November

• Meteo France warns of high avalanche risk

October

• French Avalanche Analysis for 2011/12

• 2011/2012 Accident Statistics

September

• After Manaslu - We are the enemy

May

• Avalanche warning with warm temperatures

March

• Carnage in the Canyon

• Prosecutor wants 5 year ban for ESF instructors

• Review of the 2011/2012 Snow and Avalanche Conditions

February

• An avalanche on the Vallée Blanche

• Rowdy airbag save caught on film.

January

• Spain authorizes heliskiing

• 6 Deaths in a week in the French Pyrenees

• Best Christmas snow of the century

2011

December

• Christmas movies

• Piste patroller killed by avalanche charge

• This is my winter

• Ski Resorts Open 10/12/2011

November

• French Avalanche analysis for winter 2010/2011

• Problems with multivictim searches

October

• HAT UK tour 2011

• 3 months suspended sentence for forgetting beacon

July

• France blasted by Artic Storms

June

• Mountain rescue, triumph and tragedy

April

• A tunnel for the Gouter couloir

• Switzerland: thin snow pack primes avalanche time bomb

• Worst snow in living memory according to Meteo France

March

• Spain to charge for rescue services

• Six dead, one missing in French avalanches

• Alps smog bound

February

• Chalets Lang and Troika threatened with destruction

• Fake Petzl climbing gear

• Worst winter for a generation in French Alps

January

• Guide injured by avalanche charge

• Dynafit Failure

2010

December

• Avalanche airbags, training and risk homeostasis

• Plum Guide: New Binding on the Block

• Review of French Avalanche Incidents for 2009/10

• Backcountry and off piste rescue operations and methods

November

• North America updates avalanche danger scale

• Estimating the avalanche risk

• Backcountry Awareness Initiative for University Ski Clubs

• Swiss prosecution could impact off-piste skiing

October

• Ortovox wins patent case against Pulse

• Final run for Georges Salomon

July

• Unqualified guide in fatal accident

April

• Explosion in number of ski touring fatalities in Switzerland

• French police warn skiers off mountains

• Review of the 2009/2010 Winter conditions in the French Mountains

March

• Save The Sarenne!

February

• Spook’s gadget could revolutionize mountain rescue

• Dalbello V.i.r.u.s. LITE wins ISPO 2010 Footwear award

• Marker Tour Binding wins ISPO 2010 backcountry award

• Alive after 17 hours under an avalanche

• “Hand of God” saves college prof.

January

• Fatality in Grand Vallon - Val d’Isere

• New glacier safety film on screen in Chamonix

• Europe to experience decades of artic winters?

• Avalanche of hyperbole buries Euroskiers

2009

December

• Analysis of Avalanche Accidents in France for the 2008/2009 season

• IKAR 2009, Zermatt

• ATK Race Heel Plate

• Avalanche Training Winter 2010

November

• Perfect storm for ski resorts?

• Review of the 2008-2009 ski season in France

• Ski Test Tours 2009/10

• Watch Henry’s Avalanche Talk at home

October

• Pay Powder

• Freeride/Ski world tour

• AlpControl claims world’s lightest wide skis

• October snowmaking surprises and angers locals

• Ski lift operators notice fewer Brits

• Avalanche Days 2009

• Avalanche families long wait for closure

September

• Henry’s Avalanche Talk tours UK in November

• Ski search

• Dynafit Ski Team breaks sets speed record for “Symphony”

July

• Ski resorts break records in 2009

• Meteo France forecaster slams amateur weather forecasts

• Valfréjus installs new gondola and fast chair lift

• La Grave threatened by plague of rats

• XP 444, supermodel gets make over

June

• Sara Berthelot and Paul Mason qualify as French Guides

• Avalanche kills two on Mont Blanc

• ARVA Link joins Pulse to set new avalanche beacon standards

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