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The North Shore’s original bike park returns to Cypress Mountain Resort, redesigned around modern trail-building and rider progression. | Photo: Trailforks Cypress Mountain, British Columbia, is bringing mountain biking back to the North Shore with a redesigned bike park scheduled to open in Summer 2027. Cypress Bike Park, once the North Shore’s original lift-accessed bike…

Ariel view of the Intercontinental Hotel, Tibet, People’s Republic of China. | Photo Credit: Intercontinental Hotel and Resorts Are you looking for an incredible vacation full of breathtaking views, or views that will quite literally take your breath away? Book a stay at any of these five highest hotels in the world and prepare to…

Shaun White is bringing the Snow League to New Zealand for the first time, and the event will feature the league’s first spin cap. | Credit: The Snow League Facebook On September 18, the Snow League will kick off its second season at New Zealand’s Cardrona Alpine Resort for its inaugural World Challenge event. Unlike…

Multi-destination ski trips to resorts like Corralco are transforming Chile’s Araucanía region. | Photo: Martin Kuprianowicz Fly in, take transit to Valle Nevado or Portillo resorts, stay and ski for a week or two, shuttle back to Santiago and boom — that’s a typical ski trip in the Chilean Andes for most. Not a bad…

The first descent was on the left of the photo, while the avalanche terrain can be seen in this photo. | Image: SLF A Swiss mountain guide has been convicted of multiple counts of negligent homicide following an avalanche that killed two 18-year-old students during a ski tour near Meiringen, Switzerland, in March 2023. The…

Glacier skiing at Passo Stelvio. | Image: Julia Schneemann Italy’s Stelvio Glacier has suspended summer skiing until further notice, making it the latest Alpine glacier ski area to fall victim to a blistering summer heatwave in continental Europe. SIFAS announced on the resort’s website that skiing will stop from August 15 after persistent heat, a…

Figure 1. Average relative sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (°C) for July 2026. Anomalies are computed with respect to the 1991-2020 base period monthly means. Data: OISSTv2.1. | Image: NOAA The El Niño ski season 2026-27 is shaping up to be historic, with a powerful El Niño is building rapidly in the Pacific Ocean. Forecasters…

The mayor Peillex forced the group to pay for a private helicopter. | Image: CMBH 32 mountaineers were forced to pay for their own helicopter evacuation from the Goûter Refuge on Mont Blanc in France after they continued their ascent despite warnings by mountain guides. The region had closed two mountain refuges on Mont Blanc…

Aerial view of Mammoth Mountain. | Photo: Ecosign Mammoth Mountain, California, is facing $126,000 in Cal/OSHA fines following an investigation into the December 2025 avalanche that killed ski patroller Cole Murphy. The investigation found three workplace safety violations, including one classified as a “willful” violation, as reported by SFGATE. Mammoth says it has corrected the…

The Sommeiller Glacier in its heyday. | Image: Torino Storia 20 years ago, the last remnants of one of Europe’s forgotten summer ski areas disappeared from a glacier high on the French-Italian border. The Sommeiller Glacier, above Bardonecchia in Italy’s Piedmont region, once offered an extraordinary proposition: skiing in the middle of summer at around…