Several dozen people have been killed while celebrating New Year's Eve in a ski resort in Switzerland after a fire at a bar in Crans-Montana, authorities have said.

With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more

Dozens of ski resorts across the Alps have been abandoned and left to decay, with rusty chairlifts and crumbling lodges now haunting mountainsides that once hosted thousands of skiers.

A 20-year-old student from Cork has died after becoming ill during a holiday with friends at a French ski resort over the weekend. The University College Cork (UCC) student from Tower, near Blarney, died on Saturday during a trip with a Cork skiing and snowboarding group at a resort in the French Alps.

For one Virginia family, a trip to Europe offered better prices, bigger mountains, and an unexpectedly serious week of ski school.

While there are many world-class resort destinations, none offer the pristine conditions and enthralling terrain found in the Alps. This famous mountain range, which spans hundreds of miles across France, Switzerland, Italy and other parts of Eu-rope ...

Yesterday in Part 1, I explained the myriad appeals of skiing in the French Alps, home to the three largest ski areas in the world (in terms of interconnected lifts and trails you can ski on one ticket without driving or transferring between resorts).