Thousands of tourists have been left stranded in the Alps region after heavy snowfall.

Around 200 skiers are stranded in chair lifts after a gondola broke down at a resort in the French Alps.

The passenger managed to stop the vehicle at the point its front end was hanging over an Alpine abyss.

Dozens of tourists, including a 10-year-old child, who were trapped in cable cars dangling high above the Alps overnight, have all been safely rescued.

Latest: 45 people will spend the night trapped in cable cars over Mont Blanc after a rescue operation was stood down for the night.

A man has been arrested after a woman and her three daughters were stabbed at an Alps resort.

An avalanche in the French Alps has killed five soldiers on a training exercise and left others injured, according to a rescue official.

The teacher who accompanied school pupils swept away by a deadly avalanche in the French Alps is suspected of involuntary manslaughter, a French prosecutor says.

Latest: It has now been confirmed that two French high school students and a Ukrainian skier have been killed after an avalanche in the French Alps.

An avalanche in the French Alps has swept seven climbers to their deaths on one of the region’s most popular routes. The avalanche struck three groups of roped climbers, said Pierre Besnard, the prefect of the Hautes-Alpes region.

An avalanche in the French Alps has swept five climbers to their deaths and left two missing.

Data from the second black box found in the wreckage of the Germanwings flight that crashed last week in the French Alps appears to confirm that the co-pilot acted deliberately.

Investigators have found mobile phones amid the debris of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps, but the phones have not yet produced any clues about what happened.

Three foreign tourists – two Austrians and an Italian – have died in an avalanche in the French Alps, officials said.

Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings could face liabilities well above the typical ceiling in airline crashes for the passengers who died on Tuesday when one of its jets was flown into an Alpine mountain, some aviation lawyers said.

French police working to recover remains from the Germanwings crash site say they have recovered between 400 and 600 pieces of remains from the 150 people who died.

The Germanwings airline said it is stunned and “utterly baffled” as to why one of its pilots deliberately crashed a plane into the Alps killing himself and 149 other people.

The French Alps plane disaster took a dramatic turn after black box recordings pointed to the co-pilot deliberately crashing the Airbus A320 into the mountains.

THE picture of a young man, believed to be 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz, sitting calmly beside San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is a classic image of the proverbial ‘boy next door’.

The families of three Britons killed in the French Alps plane disaster have spoken of their devastating loss.

A motorcyclist sought in connection with the murders of three members of a British family in the French Alps has been ruled out of the inquiry, according to reports, leaving police apparently no closer to a breakthrough more than two years after the killings.

The Corkman who died whilst climbing on the Alps mountain range yesterday has been named as Shay Casey.

A retired lecturer’s near fatal Alps accident and a recently completed 2,300k trek has prompted a memoir that says we are all to "passive and accepting" of self imposed limitations when it comes to getting older, writes Colette Sheridan.