Areas now open in the Alps: Austria: Hintertux France: Les 2 Alpes, Tignes & Val d’Isere Italy: Passo Stelvio & Cervinia (shared with Zermatt) Switzerland: Zermatt (shared with Cervinia) See here for ...

Tom Hart is already in the Guinness Book of Record for clocking up 8.5 million vertical feet in the 2023-24 winter. Last season he managed 11.4m. NEW “It’s a dream come true,” he said of skiing so ...

Researchers from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Padua in Italy said that where temperatures rise by two degrees celsius the Alps could experience episodes of intense ...

100 villagers from Brienz/Brinzauls have been told to leave. The village is 25 miles southwest of the ski resort of Davos. The mountain slope above the village has been deemed unsafe by the ...

GB Snowsport names 33 athletes, including six for the World Cup squad. There are familiar faces and some new ones. With the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics taking place next February and improving ...

On May 28th 9m cubic tons of rock, mud & ice came crashing down on the evacuated Swiss village and buried it. There are now plans to re-build & create a ‘New Blatten’. There have been several rock ...

Greece’s top alpine skier, AJ Ginnis, will carrying the flame for the 2026 Winter Olympics Lighting Ceremony in November. NEW The decision has been unanimously approved by the Hellenic Olympic ...

He has secured FIS Wildcards to enter races and has his eyes set on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics next February. NEW The 35-year old is one of the alpine skiing’s greatest athletes. He is an eight ...

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation has officially approved the 2025–26 Alpine World Cup calendars for both men and women. Next winter is an Olympic season with the Milan-Cortina Winter ...

At the end of last winter the glaciers in Switzerland were 13% below their 2010-2020 average size. The current hot weather is causing further melt. Glacier Monitoring Switzerland, Glamos, measured ...

The airline has new routes to several destinations that are gateways to ski resorts in the Alps, Pyrenees and Eastern Europe. NEW There are flights from Belfast International to Rovaniemi, Lapland ...

Eurostar has confirmed that its snow train service via Lille will run for winter 2025-26. It is on offer to April rather than February, and there will be extra dates for the return journey. Rather ...