And I’ve been ‘saved’ in the wild snowscape of the Grands Montets ski area. Welcome to a day in the life of the Chamonix ski patrol team. Each winter, around 300 people are rescued by the ...

"Skiing is so fun compared to that, and I just fell in love with it." DeMonte and her partner, Jack Kuenzle, arrived in Chamonix this past February. In Chamonix, there are lifts skiers use to access ...

A vintage poster highlights the dramatic Alpine scenery of the Chamonix valley. (Photo by Ben Davidson) Perhaps the greatest tram-accessed, backcountry ski run in the world starts high above ...

a longstanding partner of ski professionals – I am shadowing Mehdi Valentin, one of Chamonix’s senior ski patrollers. At 35, he is the head of pistes at Balme Le Tour, with 10 years of experience.

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain Guide Nicolò Berzi. Multi-day traverses have ...

The Chamonix Zermatt is a difficult ski mountaineering traverse. To do it, you need to master all aspects of ski touring, because it's likely that during the week the queen will put you to the test ...

Even in a hyper-popular area like the Alps near Chamonix, new, difficult routes are possible, as Leo Billon and Amaury Fouillade showed earlier this month.

But next on my itinerary is Flaine, just over an hour’s drive from Chamonix. The resort is part of the Grand Massif, the fifth largest interconnected ski area in France, offering 265km of ...

Buried deep in snow at 2,100 metres (6,889ft) in the ski resort of Chamonix in the French Alps – in the shadow of Mont Blanc – a scurrying sound is coming from above. It’s followed by ...