The Latest Breaking News on Ski holidays

The sports world is mourning skiing champion Kyle Smaine, who was killed in an avalanche in Japan, where he’d spent the past 10 days being photographed on the slopes, according to photographer Grant Gunderson.

Kyle Smaine had gone to Japan for ‘unbelievable snow quality’

One of two foreign men swept up in an avalanche in Japan while back-country skiing in the central prefecture of Nagano and found without vital signs on Monday was U.S. professional skier Kyle Smaine, an outdoor magazine said.

Captain Preet Chandi covered 922 miles (1,485km) in 70 days and 16 hours on her record-breaking trek.

Mikaela Shiffin was narrowly denied by Germany’s Lena Duerr on Sunday in her bid to equal the all-time World Cup wins record for men or women

Iranian Olympic skier Atefeh Ahmadi has quit her home country and applied for asylum in Germany, a Persian-language media outlet outside Iran reported Saturday, publishing an emotional interview with the athlete. Ahmadi, in her early 20s, was the only Iranian woman to qualify for last year's Beijing Winter Games. "I…

Arianna Sittoni, 30, was practicing ski mountaineering with guide Guido Trevisan when the avalanche swept her to her death on the Lagorai mountain chain in Trentino, Italy

The Winter X Games, one of the most highly-anticipated annual events for extreme sports enthusiasts, is set to return on Friday night.

Holidaymakers are being urged to contact their travel operator for advice before they travel