Professional mountain guide Liz Daley and skiers J.P. Auclair and Andreas Fransson have been killed in separate avalanche incidents in South America.

Andrea Zambaldi and Sebastian Haag, part of the Dynafit Double 8 team missing following an avalanche near the summit of Shisha Pangma (8013m) in the Himalayas.

Ski touring groups were involved in four separate incidents in the Savoie department yesterday requiring the intervention of the rescue services.

Meteo France may have stopped its daily avalanche bulletin for this season but an avalanche that caught four skiers yesterday above Val Thorens is a reminder that the risk is still present.

Despite warnings from the Isere and Haute-Savoie prefectures for winter sports enthusiasts to exercise caution in the mountains and to stay on secured trails and slopes there have been a series of ava

A series of avalanches across the Alps and Pyrenees have killed two off piste skiers and left a young man in a serious condition.

Despite the low to moderate avalanche risk in the sector two ski tourers were caught by an avalanche in the Prioux valley near Pralognan la Vanoise this morning just before midday.

A speed rider has been killed by an avalanche in the ski resort of l'Alpe d'Huez early this afternoon. The man, aged in his forties, was with a group of four.

Two skiers have been caught by an avalanche while ski touring above the resort of Avoriaz which is currently closed.

Second avalanche of the season in the Savoie and it is not even November. Two climbers were ascending above the glacier du Génépy in the commune of Pralognan-la-Vanoise yesterday (26th October).