The avalanche ball is a development of the avalanche cords that skiers used before the development of avalanche transceiver. Like a cord, it floats to the surface giving an immediate visual clue as to ...

Météo France publishes an avalanche bulletin (BRA) for the Alps, Pyrenees and Corsica on a daily basis throughout the ski season from mid-December to the end of April. There is a twice weekly bulletin ...

Artificial snow is much denser than natural snow. It takes a meter cubed of water to make two meters cubed of snow. This snow has an effect on the vegetation and melts much later than natural snow. It ...

Researchers using data gathered by the Swiss Avalanche Research Center at Davos for accidents between 1981 and 1991 have plotted the survival probability of a victim buried under snow against time.

There was no trace of that when we arrived. The lifties all were very pleasant, although at 10am we seemed to be the first skiers on the slopes. Sainte-Foy is anything but busy. The ski station is ...

Far from the ski factories and autoroutes of the Savoie the Southern Alpes have retained much of their mountain charm. The Hautes-Alpes are protected by the natural barrier of the Col du Lautaret to ...

The paper "Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents" presented at the 2002 International Snow Science Workshop by Ian McCammon gives some interesting insights into the decisions ...

Decided to go for a bit longer ride, only 44km mind, over 4 summits to do some climbing. A bit sluggish on the climbs to be honest - VAM of about 670m/h over 30 minutes. Nice to be though and quite ...

Built to serve the 1992 Winter Olympics Chambéry airport had trouble finding a role and was almost the private domain of Crystal Holidays, a UK package holiday company until the development of low ...

Approach skis or mini skis are short skis that are fitted with a special binding and are fitted with climbing skins. They are used to climb to off-piste routes over difficult snow conditions and can ...

Fritschi suffered some problems with their first stab at this binding, the Titanal I now fixed with the latest incarnation, the Titanal III. With soft skis such as the Dynastar 4x4 the binding could ...