As the very successful FIPS Congress at Rosa Khutor becomes a recent memory the next congress in Argentina has been confirmed planning is now underway for the XXII Congress. The FIPS Board have great pleasure in accepting the application of AADIDESS (Argentine Association of Ski Instructors, Snowboarders and Ski Patrollers)...
Montreal, April 27th, 2018 Mark LABOW, a ski patroller for 70 years, has died this week in Ste Agathe, Quebec. Mark became interested in ski patrolling international relations in 1977 and founded FIPS in 1979 with like minded people from around the planet. The glue of similar interests and...
The FIPS executive and the Rosa Khutor organising committee have extended the early bird pricing for the congress through to November 30 2017. The organising committee reports that we have registrations for attendees from 10 countries, with others to follow. We would like to remind attendees to not delay...
Fellow Patrollers Join us at the 2018 FIPS Congress Earlybird bookings for the 21st FIPS Congress to be held at Rosa Khutor, Sochi, Russia on 20-27 January 2018 are now open. It has taken longer than we would have liked but it was important to have the process checked...
Fédération Internationale des Patrouilles de Ski is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Avalanche Special Interest Group Coordinator, Fanny Bourjaillat, France. Fanny kindly writes an open letter to FIPS members to introduce herself. To all FIPS members, I was recently introduced as your new ‘’Avalanche SIG’’ manager…...
To All FIPS Members, I just returned from a trip to Sochi with Jean Louis to finalize plans for our next Congress. To clarify, the town is Sochi—the ski area 40 minutes away is Rosa Khutor. I am happy to report that the mountain, skiing, facilities and people all...
Following on from a very successful FIPS congress in Italy, the Medical Commission have been working on an Analgesia survey. We are interested in understanding the strategies that you use to improve a casualties pain management. This will enable us to better understand differences between both countries and resorts....
FIPS delegates attended the International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR) congress in Borovets, Bulgaria 19-21 October 2016 hosted by Bulgaria Mountain Rescue and Bulgaria Red Cross. Some 320 delegates from throughout the world attended. The congress consisted of presentations, demonstrations together with the ICAR Assembly of Delegates meeting and the ICAR...
On 31 May 2016 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that avalanches are an inherent risk of skiing when a skier is killed by an avalanche inside a resort boundary. The Fédération Internationale des Patrouilles de Ski (FIPS) and the Association of Professional Patrollers (APP) submitted an Amicus Brief (Friend...
The 20th FIPS Congress was hosted by Italy and held at Passo Tonale from 2-9 April 2016 with seventeen countries participating. There were approximately 150 international and 40 Italian attendees, with large contingents from both Canada and the USA. The congress opening ceremony featured welcome addresses by regional Lombardia government official...
