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Out for a sunny afternoon stroll, the man and his pint-sized pup suddenly found themselves in peril when the ice beneath them gave way. The owner tumbled into a yawning chasm, while his dainty ...
A woman in her thirties lost her life in an avalanche on Wednesday morning while skiing off-piste in the Chamonix Valley. The incident occurred around 2000 meters altitude on the north face of the ...
The avalanche forecasters from Météo-France have been out in the mountains the last week taking measurements and the bulletins are now available from the website. There are also some important ...
A 55-year-old skier lost his life on Tuesday in a massive avalanche that struck in the Mont-Blanc Massif, specifically the Grands Montets ski area on the NW facing Herse sector, according to emergency ...
I've often thought it would be possible to make a cross country ski binding more like step in mtb binding. Well it seems like Rottefella have had the same thoughts and are currently testing a new XC ...
Salomon have issued a recall for its MTN pin binding range. The recall in only for bindings manufactured from May 2022 to March 2023. The recall concerns the possibility of a breakage of the spring ...
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 ...
It is mid February and the French winter holiday period should be in full swing but unseasonably warm weather is taking a toll on ski resorts in France’s lower and mid-mountain regions, raising ...
The Atomic Redster S5 Cross Country Skate ski is the entry level of Atomic's performance range. It's bigger siblings are the S7, S9 and the Atomic S9 Gen S reviewed last season. Construction is a ...
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 fate ...
A backcountry skier lost his life in an avalanche on Sunday afternoon in Bessans (Savoie). The massive snow slide, measuring 200 meters wide, occurred beneath Pointe d'Andagne at nearly 3,000 meters ...
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. The research ...