Fourth Cham'Lines of teh 2015 season and Aurélien Ducroz is skiing a couloir that he scoped out last year during a trip with Stéphane Dan.

On the 9th of December 2010 and independent snowboard instructor from Val d‘Isère and one of his clients, a surgeon from Aix-en-Provence were caught by an avalanche in the “couloir des pisteurs” on

This video caught my eye. It is from the The World Extreme Skiing Championship (WESC) in 1992. The WESC was an extreme skiing competition held from 1991 to 2000 in Alaska.

Tuesday 10 March from Chambery or GrenobleI'm planning to get out for a ski tour looking for transformed springtime snow.

It has been a windy day in the French Alps. At 10am speeds of 150km/h were recorded at the summit of the Bellevard in Val d'Isere. This meant lift closures.

The Pyrenees had a period of risk 5 condtions at the end of last week and as well as access roads to ski resorts being closed, once again, there was some impressive natural avalanche activity.

A 62 year old man from the Grenoble area has been killed today by an avalanche in a west facing bowl under the summit of the Charmant Som (1867 meters) mountain in the Chartreuse mountain range.

The French secretary of state for sports, Thierry Braillard, is in the Hautes-Alpes today to participate in a round table on avalanche safety.

Scientists looking for a reason for the current "pause" in global warming believe they may have found the culprit in Pacific and Atlantic ocean cycles that have a major impact on Northern He

Last week Brandon, an American tourist on his first day of a ski trip to Chamonix, founds himself at the bottom of a crevasse.