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 ...

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

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 ...

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’. There have been several rock ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been snowing sand in large parts of the Alps and Pyrenees. Check out the pictures from our readers and the ski resorts. People out in the Alps have seen a few snowstorms recently. Now they’re ...

More people are visiting Austria outside the traditional times in the winter and summer seasons. At a recent joint news conference the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Tourism and the ...