The Bellevue cable car first opened in 1936, built by Charles Viard who brought the first cablecar to France. It climbs over ...

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

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and ... Les Houches is one of the main ski areas in Chamonix (Gaëtan Haugeard) Aside from its ...

A 55-year-old British man died after an avalanche descended on the Chamonix valley at the foot of the French side of the Mont ...

Few ski resorts are as evocative as Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Set in the sawtooth-sided valley beneath the north face of Europe’s highest peak, the town has a strong claim to be the birthplace not ...

For ski lovers, winter only means one thing: time to hit the slopes. And while powdery fresh snow, gorgeous views and a hard day of exercise all lure them to top resorts, somewhere with the ...

There are some fantastic deals to be had, and resorts are still buzzing but the slopes are less crowded than earlier in the ...

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 ...