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’. NEW There have been several rock ...

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 ...

Tignes joins its neighbour Val d’Isere that opened a couple of weeks ago as we reported at the time.. Val d’Isere opens for summer skiing; Tignes has four weeks of operations planned from 21st June to ...

Over in South America Vallee Nevado is the first ski area to open in Chile.. It opened on Friday 13 th, a week earlier than planned. “We’re excited to launch another winter season ahead of schedule,” ...

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 ...

It has invested in technology, content production, and platform partnerships. The Federation says the 2024-25 season marked a breakthrough in audience development, fan engagement, and global and ...

The decision has been unanimously approved by the Hellenic Olympic Committee. “Ginnis is the leading Greek athlete in alpine skiing, having secured the greatest distinction ever achieved by a Greek in ...

Flights to Grenoble on France from both Birmingham and London Southend will launch from 14th December.. From London Gatwick, winter flights will take off to Toulouse from 27 October, operating every ...

The alpine comedy festival is set to take place in the Austrian resort from 30th March to 3rd April 2026. The first names confirmed for the 2026 line-up include the return of Jason Byrne, who had such ...

Rather than ending the service half way through the ski season at the end of February, Eurostar has extended the service to early April. The last outbound departure will be on Saturday 28th March, and ...