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.

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.

An unusually warm and dry April has triggered widespread and rapid thaw across France’s mountain ranges, cutting short the ski season in many areas and leaving conditions more typical of late sprin

It was a beautiful sunny day in Les Arcs.

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