This is not a good week for tramways in Europe. An incident this week on the highest mountain in Germany severely damaged one of two Eibsee Cable Car cabins during a practice exercise. Apparently a rescue carrier broke loose due to a broken chain...
Earlier on Tuesday September 11th, the lift station of Chamonix’s famous Grands Montets cable car caught fire. Clouds of smoke billowed from atop the mountain, with helicopters dropping water in an attempt to put out the fire and a team of...
The Alps just got hammered with up to 35cm of snowfall, the snow storm especially hit Italy and Austria. As forecast the Alps got a good early snow during the passage of the cold front last night and this morning. Elevations above about 2000 m got...
A French emergency doctor and mountain guide whose high-altitude work earned him the nickname “Doctor Vertical” was killed Monday in an avalanche in the Alps, rescuers said. Emmanuel Cauchy, 58, was among a group of off-piste skiers...
Earlier today at Georgia’s popular Gudauri ski resort, near the capital Tbilisi, a ski-lift accident left eleven people injured when the chair’s brakes failed and sent passengers sliding backwards down the hill. The ski lift began running at high...
Finnish freeride snowboarder Miikka Hast and filmer Matti Ollila went to explore an especially inaccessible region of Arctic Norway known as Øksfjordjøkelen. They were on a mission to climb and snowboard down wild, untouched lines in mountains that...
