An extraordinary rescue operation in the Haute-Maurienne has ended with a 39-year-old ski mountaineer found alive despite spending more than a day trapped deep inside a crevasse following an avalanche

The first flakes of autumn followed by clear, sunny weather, were enough to bring some ski tourers out of hibernation and three of them had a lucky escape on Thursday, 22 October, after triggering an

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.

A French skier died on Saturday May 9 after an avalanche swept off the north face of the Aiguille du Plan in the Mont Blanc massif near Chamonix.

A 44 year old ski mountaineer was killed on Friday morning, May 8, after being swept away by an avalanche on the north face of the Aiguille de l’Olan in the Écrins massif in south-eastern France.

A backcountry skier was seriously injured after an avalanche caught a group of ski tourers in the French Pyrenees on this afternoon, highlighting the  risks currently affecting spring mountain c

A French backcountry skier in his forties was killed on Saturday, April 4, after being swept away by a large avalanche in the Pyrenees, authorities said.

The death of Benjamin Ribeyre in the couloir d’Orcière has sent a shockwave through the alpine community.

As we move into spring, the nature of risk in the backcountry begins to change.

A return to cold, wintry conditions across the French mountains this weekend has been accompanied by several avalanche incidents in both the Alps and the Pyrenees.