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Strikes Announced for French Ski Resorts Could Affect Peak Ski Season

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Two of the biggest French Unions representing workers in ski resorts, ‘Force Ouvrièr’ and ‘Confédération Général du Travail,’ have announced unlimited strikes starting from January 31, 2023. Mass protests began in 230 French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Nice, and Toulouse, on Thursday and Saturday last week, January 19 and 21, 2023, with an estimated 1.5 million people across the country participating […]

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Julia Schneemann | January 26, 2023
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Man Survives 2 hours and 40 minutes Under Avalanche in Val d’Isere, France

An avalanche hit a family of four snowshoeing on the Chemins des Coves track of Val d’Isere, France. The family of four was not wearing transceivers on a level 4 of 5 danger day when a 200m long by 100m wide avalanche hit them. The mother and two teenagers were hit but not buried while the father was buried under […]

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Dominic Gawel | January 29, 2021
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Too Much Snow? Snowmageddon in the Alps!

Image: snow-forecast.com Crazy amounts of snow fell in the Alps in Europe this winter! December was the snowiest start to a season in the Alps since the 1996/97 season. Some resorts reported a meter in 24 hours, and 3 meters in a week in January. Tourist office at Saas Fee. Image: snow-forecast.com In December and January, Tignes in France reported 552 centimeters […]

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Jenah MacGrain | June 4, 2018
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Dump of the Decade! The Alps are Getting Buried Right Now | Resorts and Roads Closed & Extreme Avalanche Danger

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It’s a storm that only happens once every thirty years in the French Haute Tarentaise / Haute Maurienne according to MétéoFrance. Check out the forecast which tells you everything about this insane storm in the Alps here. Resorts are closed, roads are closed and it’s no surprise that the avalanche danger is critical in all the regions above. Here’s what we […]

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Steven Agar | January 9, 2018
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VIDEO: Flying in Val d’Isère

Gus hates queuing to get on the chairlift, so he decided to venture into new ways of getting up without having to wait even a second. Believe or burst.

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Matias Ricci | December 22, 2015
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Leo Taillefer Wins GoPro Line of the Winter & $20K with Sick Edit:

This video shows Frenchman Leo T going ape-pooh in Val d’Isere, France. It’s intense nad it was enough to win him the GoPro Line of the Winter contest and $20,000. We think this type of reward system is huge in skiing’s modern age when it’s so difficult to make money as an athlete. With this format, anyone can put on a helmet cam and do what they do no matter if you’re a pro or am or weekender. If you shred hard enough, you will be rewarded.

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SnowBrains | July 2, 2015
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Line of the Winter | Leo Taillefer

Frenchman Leo Taillefer shreds his home mountain of Val d’Isere for GoPro’s Line of the Winter contest. Taillefer has some serious love for Val d’Isere: I traveled the last 7 years for skiing. I did USA, Canada, South America, Sweden, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, and after all trips, I come back [to] Val d’Isere and I see that’s the best place for me. – PLANKS Clothing athlete profile. The good stuff starts at about 1:03.

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ameliatraynor | April 2, 2015
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Ski Instructor Charged with Manslaughter in Avalanche Death

A ski instructor in Val d’Isere has been charged with manslaughter, following the death of his client in an avalanche in December 2010. The avalanche occurred off-piste in the “couloir des pisteurs” on the north face of the Charvet. The two men were carried 400 meters by the slide, and while the instructor managed to stay above the snow, his client was completely buried by the avalanche. Thanks to an avalanche beacon, he was found after 20 minutes. The client was already in a state of cardio-vascular arrest, and was airlifted to […]

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ameliatraynor | March 16, 2015
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