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If you’re looking for an Alpine MTB trip but want to venture away from the (justifiably popular) Morzine/Les Gets/Portes du Soleil axis, you might want to consider Italy’s Alpi Bike Resort. Like the Portes du Soleil, Alpi Bike Resort encompasses a substantial area — nine towns across four valleys, with 50 freeride routes, several hundred kilometres of XC riding, skills parks, 4X tracks, dirt jump areas and North Shore aplenty.

Mr Fitzherbert, 52, was skiing off-piste down a glacier in the Matterhorn and Monterosa peaks when he fell into the crevasse. The married finance worker from Kensington, west London, told The Sun: “After 70 feet it narrowed and I became stuck like a cork in a bottle between the walls.

Last week we learned locusts were swarming in Ethiopia, wiping out crops vital to the survival of local people. Now we hear grasshoppers are invading Tooele County, Utah, near Salt Lake City. They’re all over the ground, with people crunching them underfoot. The infestation is “worse than anyone can remember,” AP reports.