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2008

May

• SAM 2008

April

• Chamonix Freeride Days – 10th Anniversary

• Multiple burials revisited

• Gavarnie cut off by monster avalanche

• Winter conditions leads to rise in avalanche deaths

• Ubaye in shock following avalanche death

• The Vallee Blanche is not a ski piste

March

• Salomon on strike, Look wants to buy Rossignol

• La Grave cable car turns thirty

• Avalanche Pic Mauberme

• Four climbers killed by Pyrenees avalanche

• Another crevasse death on the Vallee Blanche

• Respected Houches mountaineers killed by avalanche

• Three ski fatalities in the Northern Alps

• Dynafit Zzeus boots and Manaslu Skis

• British boarder in VB crevasse fall

• Multiple Avalanche Burials, rarer than you think?

• International Ski School loses trademark case

February

• Melting glaciers worry the UN

• ORTOVOX informs: F1 and standards conformity/compatibility

• Smog blankets Alps

• Alps snow holding up despite record temperatures

• Mystery of bodies in the woods

• Ski Accidentology

• Missing snowboarder records “last message” on digicam

• Climber identified after half a century

• Boarder found dead at Pra Loup

January

• Time to retire the Ortovox F1?

• Bust up between la Clusaz and the Croix Fry

• The Beaufortain gets a Beacon Basin

• Management buy-out for Dynastar?

• St Lary Freeride 2008

• Col de Porte ski station closed

• Two ski tourers killed in Belledonne

• Skier missing on the Vallee Blanche

• Salomon halts French ski production

• Trophée des Derbys 2008

• Tignes season worker killed by avalanche

• Love Shack

• Ski tourer killed by Hautes-Alpes avalanche

• Beware of tracks!

• Happy anniversary le Corbier

• Vallorcine renews off piste ban

2007

December

• Vosges climbers injured by snow slide

• Faction’s Fat Twins

• Ski tourer killed by Pyrenees avalanche

• In the heart of an avalanche

• Artificial snow, a short term fix?

• Kilimanjaro, blame it on the sunshine

• Ultimate touring ski from Dynastar?

• Backcountry boarders killed by avalanche in Southern France

• Oil price will hit ski resorts hard

• French avalanche analysis 2006-2007

• Cébé halts production of goggles and helmets

November

• Black Diamond Skis 2008

• Henry’s Avalanche Talk in Val d’Isere this Saturday

• Henry’s Avalanche Talk launches new information services

• Salomon turns 60

• You dig, or you die!

• Are Southern Alps ski resorts ready for winter?

• Record breaker for les 7 Laux

• French ski resorts race to open

• Zag is back

• ‘Cham’, The Beach on Ice!

• Drought worries southern ski resorts

• Dynafit Se7en Summit Ski and Vertical ST binding

• Avalanche starters get year ski ban

• A weekend with the Dynafit Zzero 4

• Environmentalists take aim at snowmobilers

• Tarentaise ski monopoly imposes “roaming charges”

• Mondial du ski 2007 Trip Report

• Pyrenean Glaciers melting away

• The Keys to the Espace Killy

October

• Ride Hard, Ride Safe

• Avalanche Days 2007

• Review of inexpensive ski touring gear

• Chamonix to have ‘Ski Ambassadors’, more lift openings

• Ski resort operator Transmontagne is wound up

• Ski Company Goes Green To Combat Climate Change

• Mont Blanc doubles in size

• Black Diamond Test Centre

September

• Autumn Avalanche in the Belledonne

• Mondial du Ski and Snowboard 2007

• World’s longest ski vert

July

• President of the UIAGM killed by crevasse fall

• Quiksilver to dump Rossignol?

• Savoie ski resorts commit “ecological suicide”

• Retrospective on the 2006-2007 ski season

• Transmontagne goes bust

• Avalanche Risk in French Mountains

• It’s not climate change, stupid!

• Owning a French mountain property: a risky business

June

• Avalanche airbag wins design award

• Val Thorens Tarps Glacier

• Climbers killed by avalanche on Mont-Blanc

• Abondance abandons skiing

• Skier killed in the Cosmiques Couloir

May

• Two dead in French snow storms

• Peasant Lore

• Dog days for 2007 ski touring

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