The Alpine Rescuers are on the front line when disaster strikes.

A snowboarder says he survived getting caught in an avalanche thanks to his helmet and airbag.

The pair are the latest victims of adverse conditions in the Italian Alps this year

Heavy snow has left ski resorts cut off and villages isolated

Avalanche warnings across the Alps in Switzerland, Italy and Austria.

Zermatt has closed for the second time in two weeks because of severe weather.

On the theme of "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World", the 2018 Global Economic Forum in Davos will open its doors despite a thick blanket of snow, and the risk that its closing speaker, Donald Trump, won't make it to defend his "America First" policy because of a shutdown back home.

Villages are cut off and isolated as the railway and the roads were closed due to the danger of avalanches. This includes the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt for the second time in two weeks

The town was cut off to ground transport for over two days after a metre of snow fell in less than 24 hours.

Helicopters fly stranded tourists out of the Swiss resort.

Hundreds of roads across the Alps in France, Italy and Switzerland were closed, cutting off resorts and villages, after the kind of snowfall that only comes once every 30 years.

The Swiss resort has been fully closed to traffic in and out since Monday evening after authorities raised the avalanche risk to the maximum level of five.

France gradually returning to normal following the destruction caused by the passage of Storm Eleanor

The 12 year-old girl and 13 year-old boy were part of a larger group trekking through the Retezat Mountains, in Lake Bucura, when a blizzard hit.

Explosives powerful enough to blow up a house are being used to keep skiers safe from the risk of avalanches.

Rescue teams have begun the desperate search for survivors after an avalanche hit a group of high school students and teachers climbing in central Japan.

It was feared many people had been swept away by an avalanche which struck on a busy blue run near the popular resort in the French Alps. Rescuers now think no was caught up in the emergency.

Three members of the same family and their snowboarding instructor were killed in an Alpine avalanche on Monday – the worst such accident since the start of the ski-ing season in…

Three members of the same family are among four people who have been killed by an avalanche in the French ski resort Tignes

Four skiers dead in Tignes avalanche