From rescuing errant skiers to monitoring avalanches, the unsung heroes of the mountains put one writer through his paces ...

Explore snow caves and ice sculptures at France's largest glacier. Scenic train rides, hiking, and breathtaking views await ...

The Bellevue cable car first opened in 1936, built by Charles Viard who brought the first cablecar to France. It climbs over ...

Tucked away in the French Alps, Ecrins National Park is a stunning, untamed wilderness of snow-capped summits, glacial ...

Mont Blanc is part of the Graian Alps, a subrange of the Western Alps. It is located between the Aosta Valley in Italy and the Haute-Savoie department in France. This mountain massif is surrounded ...

Two separate avalanches killed five skiers across the French Alps on Wednesday, according to several news reports. Four of ...

New research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has considered how the Mont-Blanc massif in France has responded to changing environmental conditions since the termination of the ...

A 55-year-old skier lost his life on Tuesday in a massive avalanche that struck in the Mont-Blanc Massif, specifically the Grands Montets ski area on the NW facing Herse sector, according to emergency ...

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

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

For 2025, blackcrows launched their newest limited edition Ghost Resort collection to coincide with the premier of chapter ...

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