In Siviez in the Swiss canton of Valais, only about 20 mountain enthusiasts took the avalanche dog handler training course ...

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 ...

The avalanche hit around midday on the eastern face of Punta Valgrande, a summit on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The skiers who died were dragged downhill for several hundred metres ...

Storm Herminia fuelled more flooding in north-west France and created dangerous avalanche conditions in the Alps.

A 27-year-old ski tourer has died in the hospital in Sion, in southwestern Switzerland, after being caught in an <a ...

A 27-year-old ski tourer has died in the hospital in Sion, in southwestern Switzerland, after being caught in an avalanche on Saturday.

The risk of avalanches is high in the Swiss Alps; trains in Switzerland have become even more punctual; and more news in our ...

The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) announced on Tuesday that it has granted a group of Swiss researchers a patent for a device, named ‘Snowimager’, to enhance avalanche ...

An avalanche in Val-Cenis, Savoie, claimed the lives of four Norwegian ski tourers on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. The avalanche struck in the late afternoon near the Col de Sollières, outside the ski ...

ROME - Three skiers were killed in an avalanche in Italy's Piedmont region on Sunday. Piedmont Alpine and Speleological Rescue said they responded to calls of an avalanche involving five mountaineers ...

An avalanche has hit a group of five skiers in Italy’s northern Piedmont region on Sunday, killing three of them, rescuers said.