A new avalanche took place this late morning on Friday in the town of Villaroger in Savoy. According to a press release from the prefecture, a person lost their lives in the off-piste sector of the Grand Col, outside the marked ski area and four other people who were part of the same group could … Read more
Italian Federica Brignone set a glove and four fingers on her second world N.1 globe, winning 34 years old, about ten kilometers from the family chalet, the second super-G of the Thuile (Italy) on Friday. When Lara Gut-Behrami, the only one who can prevent her daughter from winning the Alpine skiing World Cup, crossed a … Read more
It is more used to cohabitation with chamois than in urban life. When we meet in a Parisian brewery in early February, Fiona Mille, the president of the NGO Mountain Wilderness France, just left the Senate, where she participated in a conference on the organization of the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in the French Alps. … Read more
In the absence of gold at the World-2025 in Saalbach (Austria), Clément Noël aims at the crystal of the little slalom globe from Sunday to Kranjska Gora (Slovenia), with three races to the finals to decide between five to six skiers. Two weeks after its disillusionment in the Salzbourg station, it is on the «Subkoren” … Read more
We knew that it was going to happen, but maybe immediately, after last weeks so complicated. But Mikaela Shiffrin is a giant of sport, and she entered history through the big door this Sunday by winning the 100th victory of her World Cup career, on the Slalom Sestrières (Italy). The American is the very first, … Read more
Nothing stops Federica Brignone this winter, not even a nasty flu: sick since the Worlds-2025 in Saalbach (Austria), the Italian managed an impressive full card in Sestrières (Italy), winning the two giant slaloms on the program . Already victorious on the track of the JO-2006 of Turin on Friday, Brignone, 34, presented this on Saturday … Read more
Surfing to her world title, the Italian Federica Brignone flew over his audience on Friday the first giant of Sestrières, counting for the World Cup and who saw Mikaela Shiffrin make a very careful return to the discipline. Second in the morning round behind the 23-year-old New Zealander Alice Robinson, Brignone made an impressive second … Read more
Elise Martin Posted on 02/21/2025 at 8:17 a.m. When the lava meets the snow. Since February 8, Mont Etna, located more than 3,000 meters above sea level in Sicily, has erupted again when it was covered with snow. If the eruptions of the largest and largest volcano in Europe are not uncommon, – once or … Read more
The fall and then the painful. Last year, there were “52,000 resort interventions” of rescuers, announces Sophie Grout, communications officer for Ancef (National Federation for the Development of Sports and Mountain Tourism). If snow can amortize a fall, it can also amplify an injury with a ski that remains in it. So, should you take … Read more
The dramas are linked in the Alps at the start of the year. Just on Saturday February 15, Savoy recorded two deadly avalanches. The first won three ski hikers who climbed the top of the Grands Moulins (2,495 m above sea level), in the Belledonne massif, killing a thirty -year -old woman. The second, which … Read more