I’d never been to Chamonix before and had no idea what to expect. I knew it was a ski-resort town and home of the famous Mont Blanc, but what could I do there over the summer season when the snow had ...

Two separate avalanches killed four Norwegians and one Swiss skier.

An avalanche in the French Alps on Wednesday killed four Norwegian skiers swept away by the off-piste torrent of snow and ice ...

A British skier has died following a “very large” avalanche in the French Alps. The 55-year-old man was found in the snow in ...

Four Norwegians and a Swiss woman were reportedly killed in avalanches while skiing off-piste in the French Alps on Wednesday ...

Four Norwegians died after being “buried” by a cascade of snow and ice in the southeastern Savoie region, while a Swiss woman was killed near Chamonix, in the Haute-Savoie region further north.