PlanetSKI has spend a week touring with the Ski Club of Great Britain from a base in Chamonix. As ski touring becomes more popular we report on the full experience including a night in a mountain hut.

Two chalet hosts with 15 years’ experience in the Alps are expanding their residential training courses in the UK this year, opening up possibilities for more youngsters to work a ski season. They are ...

The French Ski area is not the most obvious place for a late-season ski trip. All the more reason to visit in our opinion and soak up ‘slow-tourism’ as the season draws to an end. UPDATED If you want ...

The sunny weather continues across large parts of the Alps. The freezing level has been at around 3,000m with temperatures exceeding 20°C in some of the lower valleys. PlanetSKI reader, Liz Vizard, ...

For the first time in six years, the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships are being held in the Alps. After a break during the Covid pandemic followed by a couple of years in the UK, The BRITS ...

Zoe Atkin has taken the Freeski Halfpipe World Championships title at the 2025 Freestyle World Championships in Engadin/St. Moritz in Switzerland. She qualified in second place behind China’s Fanghui ...

Tucked up at the end of the Schanfigg valley in the southeastern canton of Graubünden, Switzerland is the resort of Arosa. Not heard of it? No surprise, given that over 90% of the visitors are Swiss.

PlanetSKI is in Japan for a month or so. Our stay in the Hakuba Valley on the main island of Honchu ends, with yet more fresh snow.

Check out the GB Snowsport athletes competing in major FIS competitions this week. Plus the key results from last week’s events. It had been thought the development in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales would be ...

It claims to be the fourth largest ski area in France. Yet it is pretty much undiscovered by the British. Why? PlanetSKI reports. Update Friday 28th March. Now before we get to the full story of Les ...

Tucked up at the end of the Schanfigg valley in the southeastern canton of Graubünden, Switzerland is the resort of Arosa. Not heard of it? No surprise, given that over 90% of the visitors are Swiss.

Widespread avalanches have left the Bec des Rosses unsafe for freeriding after tests this morning. It’s only the second time in its history that the Xtreme Verbier has been cancelled. NEW The final ...