Rising costs have made skiing increasingly inaccessible, transforming what was once a common pastime into an activity perceived as elitist. Quin points out that skiing was most affordable during the ...

Météo France publishes an avalanche bulletin (BRA) for the Alps, Pyrenees and Corsica on a daily basis throughout the ski season from mid-December to the end of April. There is a twice weekly bulletin ...

On March 5, the Syndicat Mixte des Stations des Bauges made the difficult decision to close Aillons-Margériaz 1000 permanently. In recent years, the resort has struggled with poor snowfall, a problem ...

Researchers using data gathered by the Swiss Avalanche Research Center at Davos for accidents between 1981 and 1991 have plotted the survival probability of a victim buried under snow against time.

Approach skis or mini skis are short skis that are fitted with a special binding and are fitted with climbing skins. They are used to climb to off-piste routes over difficult snow conditions and can ...

A snow slab is basically a cohesive layer of snow sitting on a weaker layer. The danger with slabs is that a large mass of snow can slide down a slope burying a skier. Slabs can be divided into hard ...

The Tornado has been developed to satisfy the needs of backcountry skiers looking for a boot that approaches the performance of alpine ski boots. The boot is aimed firmly at the lift served off-piste ...

A little blast around the pistes of Allevard. No real queues for the end of the holidays but quite a few kids groups on the slopes so quite busy. The snow is holding up quite well. Warm, pistes ...

Fritschi suffered some problems with their first stab at this binding, the Titanal I now fixed with the latest incarnation, the Titanal III. With soft skis such as the Dynastar 4x4 the binding could ...

The avalanche ball is a development of the avalanche cords that skiers used before the development of avalanche transceiver. Like a cord, it floats to the surface giving an immediate visual clue as to ...

The paper "Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents" presented at the 2002 International Snow Science Workshop by Ian McCammon gives some interesting insights into the decisions ...