We’re making a few turns on the Hintertux glacier that’s open year round if conditions allow. We’re also going 30m inside the glacier exploring its caves & tunnels. It’s all part of our summer tour in ...

The PlanetSKI Snow Report There are spring conditions across much of the Alps and it’s time to head high for your end-of-season turns. The recent wintry conditions that brought significant snowfall to ...

It has been a slow start to winter in Australia and New Zealand but things are slowly improving. Resorts in Australia opened earlier in June with very little skiing on offer. Now the temperatures have ...

Torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks as water swept through the ski resort with rail access suspended. The resort is putting on a brave face as the clean up continues. UPDATED The waters ...

More and more of us are renting skis rather than buying them. There has been a sharp growth in the rental sector. Why? In the 2018/19 season 16.9% more pairs of skis were sold to sports retailers ...

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 ...

A handful of high-altitude glacier resorts are open with some of the best conditions in recent years. UPDATED The heavy end of season snow in April and May, plus recent storms in the Alps have led to ...

Mia Brookes (Slopestyle) Txema Mazet Brown (Slopestyle) Maisie Hill (Slopestyle) Siddhartha Ullah (Halfpipe) Aaron Wild (Halfpipe) Freeski Slopestyle World Cup – Stoneham – 20-22 Feb ...

The person threw a giant snowball from a chairlift in Alpe d’Huez that hit a man having lunch at a restaurant terrace below. UPDATED The 61 year old man was hit on the head as he ate lunch with his ...

It was a similar picture in Switzerland as we reported earlier and in some detail on PlanetSKI: Avalanche deaths in Switzerland up 50% this winter We reported on the increase in accidents, and some ...

1 Pasterze (Carinthia, Glockner group) -203.5 2 Rettenbachferner (Tirol, Ötztal Alps) -127.0 3 Sexergertenferner (Tirol, Ötztal Alps) -93.7 4 Schlatenkees (Tirol, Venice Group) -92.8 5 Fernauferner ...