This video was captured from the base of Mount Blanc in the French Alps and this was the moment an avalanche began rolling ...

An avalanche fully buried a group of skiers in the Lepontine Alps on January 12. Three of the five skiers caught in the slide were tragically killed. The avalanche occurred while the group was ...

A British skier has been killed by an avalanche in the French Alps, the Foreign Office said. Jonathan Smout, 34, who was staying at the resort of Tignes, was swept away while skiing today at the ...

Météo-France Bourg St. Maurice performed an assessment at Becca Motta (2700m) to evaluate snow conditions and potential avalanche risks. Below 1800m: poor-quality, wet snow. Between 1800m and 2000m: a ...

A gendarme of the French "Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne" (High Mountain Police Squad, PGHM) takes part in an avalanche search and rescue training, near Briancon in the French Alps on ...

Buried deep in snow at 2,100 metres (6,889ft) in the ski resort of Chamonix in the French Alps – in the shadow ... The demonstration of an avalanche rescue, conducted regularly to keep dogs ...

Two separate avalanches killed five skiers across the French Alps on Wednesday, according to several news reports. Four of the deceased — all Norwegians — were caught in an avalanche at Val-Cenis.

Five skiers died in two separate avalanches in the French Alps, local media reported on Wednesday. In the Savoie region of the French Alps, four Norwegian skiers lost their lives in the Val-Cenis ...

Five skiers were killed in two separate avalanches in the French Alps on Wednesday, local officials have confirmed. One torrent of snow came in Val-Cenis, in the south-eastern Savoie region ...

The Norwegians were part of a group of seven that was swept away by an avalanche in Val-Cenis in the southeastern Savoie region near the Italian border. Three of the skiers died on the spot while ...