Snow usually covers these upper mountainsides ... climbers and hikers in Ecrins National Park in the southern French Alps. From the village, trekkers can access the mountain refuges that usually ...

The twin warnings came after more than a metre of snow fell in a few hours in the Alps on Thursday ... cross-country ski instructor in the French village of Termignon, worried about the risk ...

It sits north of Mont Blanc, the most famous mountain in the French Alps and the highest peak in ... border with Italy and is always covered in snow, which is why it is named the White Mountain.

Clinging to the mountainside at an altitude of over 700 m, the village of Sainte-Agnès overlooks the sea from the heights of ...

Snowfall in April is not unusual in the Alps but the quantity of snow has taken many residents ... a retired cross-country ski instructor in the French village of Termignon, who was worried ...

Alpe du Grand Serre, a resort near Grenoble at an altitude of 1,368m, has been forced to shut after failing to raise the money to install year-round snow-making ... for this village resort and ...

Although snow is not uncommon in the Alps in April, the disruption left thousands of homes in the Savoie region of eastern France without power. In neighbouring Switzerland, the Simplon Pass into ...

I RACED around the corner where snow-dusted trees gave way to a deep ... me to visit Morzine — a chocolate box resort in the French Alps — for so very long. So I was there sampling one of ...

Her team tested everything - from the village's water supply, to building materials, artificial snow and even dietary ... who moved to the French Alps with his family in 2007.