Few European ski resorts are as legendary as Chamonix. Official estimates say the area hosts 60,000 visitors a day during the ...

I’d never been to Chamonix before and had no idea what to expect. I knew it was a ski-resort town and home of the famous Mont Blanc, but what could I do there over the summer season when the snow had ...

The victim, aged 55, died after being swept away by an avalanche in an off-piste sector in the Chamonix valley, at the foot ...

A British skier has been killed in a “very large” avalanche in the French Alps. The unnamed 55-year-old man died after being ...

The avalanche fell in an off-piste part of Les Grands Montets where the 55-year old man had been skiing. It was spotted by a ...

Originally a mountain hut, it’s accessible only ... Auberge de Jeunesse run by Hostels International France on the outskirts of Chamonix proper. If you’re renting skis, you can’t go far ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain Guide Nicolò Berzi. Multi-day traverses have ...

But France's Prime Minister Jean Castex has ... Dave Searle of the British Association of Mountain Guides in Chamonix says he's concerned about future winter seasons Dave Searle works with the ...

Four Norwegians and a Swiss woman were reportedly killed in avalanches while skiing off-piste in the French Alps on Wednesday ...

France's Lionel Claudepierre has set a new record on the Chamonix - Zermatt Haute Route ski mountaineering traverse in a record 18 hours and 35 minutes. Mountain Guide Paolo Tombini shares his views ...