Saas-Fee, Switzerland – Friday, July 4: Move over, St. Bernards—there’s a new four-legged mountain hero in town, and he’s barely the size of a teacup.

New research published in Nature (Lee et al. 2025) suggests that the weakening of the North Atlantic conveyor will not product the bumper winters that many ski enthusiasts had expected.

This spring, Font-Romeu Pyrénées 2000 achieved an unexpected milestone; it outpaced its larger neighbor, Saint-Lary, in ski-day sales—and it may yet emerge as the busiest resort in the entire French

It is like the plot of a bad Agatha Christie novel with ski resorts dying left and right. In the quiet Alpine village of Allos, suspense is mounting, not in a corny novel, but in real life.

The N'Py ski network has wrapped up its 2024–2025 season with an impressive 2,070,375 skier-days, marking a 9% increase over last year and nearly matching the record season of 2021–2022—the best of t

Italian climber Luca Calzone filmed this video of a Geneva based private plane taking off between ski touring groups on the Monta Rosa mountain range on the Swiss / Italian border (Dufourspitze).

In February 2024, two groups of climbers were caught in an avalanche at Mont-Dore, in the Puy-de-Dôme region. It was the deadliest avalanche in Auvergne in 50 years.

Financial mismanagement at St Jean d'AulpsA recent report from the Regional Accounts Office has raised serious concerns about the governance of the Saint-Jean-d'Aulps ski resort, particularly the

The recent “Retour d’Est” weather event brought impressive snowfalls across the French Alps, particularly in the regions around the source of the Arc and Isère rivers.

Friday, April 18, and this coming weekend, extreme caution is advised for all mountain activities off marked and open trails.The avalanche risk is high (level 4) today across all Alpine departments.