Normally, this time of year, after a good refreeze we can expect wet snow slides on sunny slopes but the avalanche bulletins have talked about "natural slides that take the form of wet slabs with

After a brief return to winter last weekend Spring is firmly with us and that means a return to spring dangers: weakly bridged crevasses, falls on icy snow and even sunstroke.

On the 23rd March, 2015 a guided group at la Grave is engulfed by the powder cloud of an avalanche triggered by falling séracs on the East Col of the Pelvoux above the glacier noir.

An avalanche has hit a skier on the Arandelières red at les Arcs yesterday.

12,000 meters of climbing, 250km of skiing. That's what a keen ski tourer would be happy with in a month.

Two Austrian ski tourers, aged in their twenties, and an Italian, have been killed and another is in a serious but stable condition following an avalanche in the French Ecrins mountain range at 15h00

Five people have been killed in a series of avalanche incidents across the European Alps over the weekend following heavy snowfall over Italy and parts of Switzerland and France.

For the penultimate episode of ChamLines Aurelien Ducroz is joined by the legendary Italian skier Giulia Monego, winner of Verbier Xtreme in 2006.

Winter 2015 has been a bit of a mixed bag for French lift operators.

Glide cracks appear when the snowpack slides slowly downhill at different rates, faster towards the bottom. Often the movement is just a few mm per day.