James Cove

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation says Audi will continue as the title sponsor of the FIS Alpine World Cup and as an official partner of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

The King’s Birthday in the first weekend of June is always the traditional opening of the ski season. Sometimes there is enough snow to open the ski runs, sometimes there is not.

Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher lost her life in a helicopter crash during a military training exercise in Sourton, near Okehampton, Devon on Wednesday. Tributes are being paid.

There has been a move by some of the major ski nations to the oust the current President Johan Eliasch. Now the CEO has stepped down after reported disagreements with Eliasch.

At stake is the very future of the body that governs elite snowsports. This Thursday a new President is due to be elected in a contest that has split FIS down the middle. Some fear the organisation may even break up.

AI use for ski trip research has nearly quadrupled in a year, but snow certainty and trusted advice still decide where the British ski.

Many resorts in Australia opened last weekend and this weekend it is the turn of New Zealand to get the 2026 ski season underway. Hopefully.

This summer we are hiking in the Alps, the Canadian Rockies, plus the South Downs Way & SW Coastal Path in the UK. But we start in Scandinavia.

In a bitter election that has split the organisation down the middle Johan Eliasch has been ousted. It was the narrowest of margins: 65 to 64. NEW

A handful of glacier resorts are currently open in the Alps with a couple more opening later in the summer. There's some skiing in Scandinavia and North America.