The new Wimbledon champion was first an Italian ski racer before he swapped his skis for a tennis racket.

Residents of the French Alpine village of Allos have voted to end skiing and snowboarding at their local ski resort, Val d’Allos–Le Seignus.

32people have gone on trial after 78 people died in a hotel fire in the ski resort of Kartalkaya last January.

The heavy end of season snow in April and May, plus recent storms in the Alps have led to good summer glacier skiing conditions.

Resorts have described conditions as poor. There was the lowest number of avalanches in the past 40 years – an indication of limited snowfall. Six mountain areas – Lochaber, Glen Coe, Creag Meagaidh, ...

The Cine Caron cable car crashed just ahead of the resort's opening last month.PlanetSKI has learnt the cabins are beyond repair it will not open this winter ...

The country’s leading airport operator, Avinor, has teamed up with the travel group Norway - Home of Skiing. Their goal is to ensure that more international travellers choose Norway and its alpine ...

PlanetSKI has spent a week touring with the Ski Club of Great Britain from its chalet base in Chamonix. With ski touring becoming more popular we report on the full experience, including a night in a ...

More people are visiting Austria outside the traditional times in the winter and summer seasons. At a recent joint news conference the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Tourism and the ...

There is no place like it anywhere in the world, and in our opinion no ski trip to Japan should miss one of the world’s greatest cities. Tokyo has a population of over 14m in the main city itself. The ...

There’s a big programme of sporting action for GB skiers and snowboarders over the next 7 days, including two men’s slalom World Cups and the X Games in Aspen, Colorado. We have the full calendar and ...

100 villagers from Brienz/Brinzauls have been told to leave. The village is 25 miles southwest of the ski resort of Davos. The mountain slope above the village has been deemed unsafe by the ...