Tourist office: See courmayeurmontblanc.it, the website for the Courmayeur Mont Blanc Tourist Board, for piste maps, weather reports, lift status, webcams, traffic details and local event listings.

Mountain Guide Rudy Buccella introduces the Marbrèe couloir freeride descent above Courmayeur, a long and beautiful off-piste run in the Mont Blanc massif. The Marbrèe descent is a quite particular ...

Overwhelmed by an avalanche during an off-piste descent in Valle d'Aosta, a 25-year-old skier died and a girl of the same age is missing. It happened around 1 pm in Val Veny, above Courmayeur.

The piste, of course. Courmayeur mountain restaurants are not necessarily fancy or expensive, but they do offer excellent Italian cooking, which is just want you want after a hard morning's skiing.

A handful of piste-side restaurants, within easy walk of the cable-car, ... Rental equipment, lessons and trail maps are available at Courmayeur Ski & Snowboard School. Evening.

ROME — Rescue teams were searching Sunday for two off-piste skiers who were caught in an avalanche near Mont Blanc on Italy’s northern border with France, local authorities said. Two surviving ...

Dave Watts and Chris Gill are like the Starsky and Hutch of the skiing world, seeking out injustice, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty.

The two people are thought to have been skiing off piste when the avalanche happened at an altitude of around 10,000 feet. Both victims are Italian, according to police at Courmayeur, but no ...