Bars in Tignes Cocorico. The 1960s concept of the après-ski tea dance in your ski boots is alive and well – albeit in a more lively 21st-century format in Tignes Val Claret at the bottom of the ...

From the main accommodation centres, Val Claret and Tignes Le Lac (2km apart and jointly known as Tignes 2100), lifts travel up either side of the resort, in one direction towards Val d’Isère ...

Skiers were caught in a huge avalanche which hit the main piste area of a resort in the French Alps today. A “mass of snow and impacted ice” hit the Carline piste in the Val Claret area of ...

Last month four snowboarders were killed by a 100m wide avalanche which hit an off-piste slope known as Toviere, near Tignes. Tignes, along with neighbouring Val d'Isere, is part of Espace Killy ...

Pitched at 1,550 metres, it is not linked by shuttle bus to the other nearby ski zones – Tignes Val Claret at 2,300 metres, Tignes Le Lac at 2,100 metres, even the smaller Tignes Les Boisses at ...

A "mass of snow and impacted ice" hit the Carline piste in the Val Claret area of Tignes, in the Savoie department, covering "numerous people on the slopes". French Police said at the time of the ...

Village Montana Suites is on the piste at Tignes-Le-Lac next to the Aeroski gondola. ... L'Ecrin du Val Claret Hotel is a comfortable four-star with its own spa. £799-£1,249.

Two off-piste skiers died in an avalanche near the resort of Tignes on Wednesday, to add to the growing death toll of winter sports enthusiasts, who have lost their lives in the French Alps this ...

It has been the best year on record for ski bargains, and while the lowest prices are on offer from entry level resorts, the best skiing is also available at knockdown rates.

At least four people have been killed in an avalanche at the ski resort of Tignes in the French Alps. Nine people were skiing off-piste when the avalanche struck around 11am local time.