A spate of fatal avalanches has struck the French Alps amid persistently unstable snow conditions follow heavy snowfall. This ...
Three separate avalanches killed three off-piste skiers in the French Alps today, resort officials said, a day after three skiers died in similar incidents, bringing the weekend toll to six. The ...
Buried deep in snow at 2,100 metres (6,889ft) in the ski resort of Chamonix in the French Alps – in the shadow of Mont Blanc – a scurrying sound is coming from above. It’s followed by panting and ...
Imagine yourself and your favorite travel partner dangling in your own private little gondola, gliding silently for 40 minutes as you cross the Mer de Glace, or “sea of ice.” You just left the last ...
This is the second of my three-part series on my excellent European Alps adventure. Earlier this week I wrote about Megève and Courmayeur, now it’s time for a look at historic and massive ...
CHAMONIX, France — Monday, our fifth and final day in the Alps, dawned crystal clear. This was what we had waited for, through a gray weekend, after turning back two days earlier on a rain-slick ...
Imagine you and your favorite travel partner dangling in your own private little gondola, gliding silently for 40 minutes as you float above the crags and crevasses of the vast Géant Glacier. On your ...