From rescuing errant skiers to monitoring avalanches, the unsung heroes of the mountains put one writer through his paces ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A British man has died after being swept away by an avalanche in an off-piste sector in the Chamonix valley, at the foot of ...

Five skiers were killed in two separate avalanches in the French Alps on Wednesday, local officials have confirmed. One ...

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 ...

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