Sierra Nevada

News on Sierra Nevada, the ski resort and other activities

That is a question that many people in Granada are asking as they look up and see the Sierra Nevada completely snow covered.

The Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada has activated its winter, informative campaign so that members of the public can enjoy the sierras in safety.

Winter has come early this year with snowfalls all over most of Spain and… Sierra Nevada, too, but there’s good and bad news.

The first snowfall has not arrived and there is already trouble on the horizon for the coming Sierra Nevada skiing season.

A mountain climber on the Sierra Nevada came across a handgrenade, which is not something that you expect to find up there, is it?

If you had viewed the Sierra Nevada webcams yesterday you would have been amazed to see the slopes under a white carpet… in August.

The body of a 17-year-old lad was recovered by the Guardia Civil, mountain-rescue team on the Sierra Nevada within the municipality of Güéjar-Sierra.

All the workers belonging to Cetursa, which is the company that runs the ski stations on Sierra Nevada, met and voted to come out in protest.

The mountain-rescue services in Granada were busy last Saturday, rescuing people both at 2,900 metres up and also much closer to sea level.

A man had to be rescued last Saturday after suffering a fall in the Sierra Nevada in the area known as Corral del Veleta (Canuto).

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