Milan/Cortina Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony of the Milan/Cortina Winter Olympics has begun, showcasing Italian culture and featuring the handover to the French Alps for the 2030 Games.
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The closing ceremony of the Milan/Cortina Winter Olympics has begun, showcasing Italian culture and featuring the handover to the French Alps for the 2030 Games.

Two alpinists died in separate avalanche incidents in Merano (South Tyrol) and Val d’Ayas (Aosta Valley), following another recent fatality in Saint-Nicolas.
Two individuals have died in avalanches in the Alps, attributed to the significant snowfall experienced earlier in the winter season.

Kandersteg is presented as a serene, year-round destination in the Swiss Alps where nature is paramount and time seems to slow down.

Two individuals, a 21-year-old Slovakian and a 41-year-old Austrian, died in separate avalanches in Tyrol and Styria while skiing off-piste, bringing the total avalanche fatalities in Austria to seven within 48 hours.

A review tests the Dyson Supersonic Nural hair dryer, which features sensors to cool air and protect sensitive scalps from heat damage during styling.

The thermal waters of the Italian Alps, known for their restorative properties, are being utilized by elite athletes during the Winter Games for rejuvenation.

Five people, including a man skiing with his son, were killed in avalanches in the Austrian Alps on Friday, raising the region's avalanche death toll this season to at least 21.

After hosting the 2024 Paris Olympics, France is set to welcome the Olympic flame again in 2030, with the French Alps preparing to host the Winter Games.

After eight years of personal highs and lows, the American dominated the women’s slalom to put her greatness beyond question High above the jagged peaks of the Italian Alps, Mikaela Shiffrin stood at

A third British national has died in an avalanche in the French Alps within a week, contributing to a total of 28 avalanche fatalities in the region since the winter season began.
The 2026 Winter Olympics is proceeding with a full schedule of events on February 17, featuring medal competitions in snowboarding and other disciplines.

In a pioneering effort, scientists in Australia are using innovative tagging methods to track 10,000 bogong moths across the Australian Alps to their breeding grounds, aiming to understand their migration patterns.

A train derailed in Switzerland near Goppenstein, injuring five, as large areas of the western Alps remain under a category 5 avalanche risk. The incident occurred amid fatal avalanches across the region.

Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives Since Jesse Armstrong’s Succession and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, wealthy, spoilt, dysfunctional siblings are the new rock’n’roll, and now here is a film from Greek screenwriter Efthimis Filippou (co-author of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps and Dogtooth) and directed by Karim Aïnouz. It is a weird-wave contrivance concerning a messed-up US plutocrat clan living in Spain, freely remade from Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 film Fists in the Pocket. Their bizarre and cartoony secrets, involving sex abuse, manipulation and self-harm, are satirically symptomatic of capitalism and the patriarchy, and how the rich, however entrepreneurial and smart, create a next-gen class of useless drones, on whose behalf all this wealth has supposedly been accumulated. I have to admit to finding it heavy-handed and clumsy more often than not, although there are some good performances, notably from Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning. A strange extended family lives in a luxurious modernist house; the father (Tracy Letts) is a blind widower haunted by the memories of his late wife (Pamela Anderson) who was savaged by wolves in a nearby forest. His grownup children, infantilised by wealth, all live there: highly strung Robert (Lukas Gage) has epilepsy, and is entrusted with supervising his father’s horse riding; Anna (Riley Keough) is a talentless singer-songwriter; and Ed (Callum Turner) is a would-be fashionista. First among equals is Jack (Jamie Bell), who has the intimate honour of helping his father with his nightly teeth-cleaning; their mother’s teeth were always dazzlingly white. Continue reading...

The body of a young Italian alpinist, missing since Wednesday, was found after an avalanche in the eastern Swiss Alps.

An article describes Lake Bled in Slovenia as 'the most photogenic lake in the world,' highlighting its beauty and tranquility during the off-season when tourist crowds subside.
The death toll is rising following widespread avalanche chaos in European mountain ranges. Warnings for new avalanches are being issued, and the situation is expected to remain critical.

An avalanche in the Alps has claimed the lives of five people, including a 42-year-old German man and his 16-year-old son, according to police reports.

Heavy snowfall in the Austrian Alps has led to seven avalanche deaths since Friday, making off-piste winter sports extremely dangerous, with other regions like Hungary, Slovenia, and France also facing snow-related challenges.

It has been confirmed that the speed skating events for the 2030 Winter Olympics will be held outside the host nation of France, potentially in Italy or the Netherlands.

It has been confirmed that the speed skating events for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps will take place outside of France, either in Italy or the Netherlands.

Three people have died in a series of avalanches in the Austrian Alps, with several other rescues taking place amidst severe weather warnings.
Eileen Gu, the most decorated female Olympic freestyle skier, continues to be a global superstar who elicits strong and divided opinions.
Mikaela Shiffrin discusses her potential participation in the 2030 Olympics in France and addresses questions about her retirement.
A video captured a massive avalanche racing toward a group of skiers in Italy, resulting in two fatalities.

The accident happened as the region is under its second-highest avalanche warning, a level four out of five.

A train derailed in Switzerland near Goppenstein, injuring five people, as large areas of the western Alps face a category 5 avalanche risk.

A train carrying around 80 people derailed following an avalanche on Monday morning
Popular ski resorts in the Alps and Sweden are facing an unusually high risk of avalanches this year, with experts warning that even small snowfalls can create dangerous conditions.

The avalanche risk remains high in the Alps, with over 30 incidents in Tyrol alone and multiple fatalities reported across several countries, including a father and son caught in a slide.

Archaeologists claim to have found evidence of Hannibal's war elephants, used by the Carthaginian general during his historic campaign across the Alps in the Second Punic War.

Heavy snowfall in the Italian Alps has led to the postponement of the Women's Olympic freeski halfpipe final by a day, impacting the competition schedule.

An AT-Alert has been issued for Vorarlberg and Tyrol in Austria due to persistent high avalanche danger, with many areas at warning level four out of five, urging winter sports enthusiasts to avoid unsecured terrain.
Organizers of the 2030 French Alps Olympics are working to present a positive image of their project, which faces a tight hosting schedule, ahead of the handover from Milan Cortina.
The speed skating events for the 2030 Winter Olympics, hosted by the French Alps, have been confirmed to take place outside of France, potentially in Italy or the Netherlands.

Skiers in the French Alps are enjoying impressive and abundant snowfall, creating favorable conditions for winter sports.

Heinz Mueller, a Swiss survivor, shares his harrowing experience of being buried under 30 feet of snow in the Swiss Alps in 1993, describing the immediate feeling as 'panic'.

Death of Briton along with Polish citizen near La Grave comes four days after fatal avalanche at Val d’Isère A third British man has been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps. The man had been skiing with a group of four others when the avalanche struck near the resort town of La Grave on Tuesday morning, local media reported. Continue reading...

Friends of Stuart Leslie paid tribute to a ‘true legend’ after he was one of three people killed in the French ski resort of Val d’Isère

Stuart Leslie, 46, and Shaun Overy, 51, died while skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère amid red avalanche alert Two British skiers who died in an avalanche in the French Alps have been named as Stuart Leslie and Shaun Overy. The pair were part of a group of five people, accompanied by an instructor, skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère in south-east France on Friday when they were swept away by falling snow. Continue reading...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed an ancient bone that could be the first concrete evidence of General Hannibal's war elephants, a significant find for understanding ancient military history.

Two skiers were killed in an off-trail avalanche on the Italian side of Mont Blanc, highlighting dangerous conditions in the Alps.