Posts By Teresa Fisher
Don’t just shove your end-of-season ski kit into the loft!
April 28, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
As you trade in thick sweaters and winter boots for the shorts and t-shirts, with the promise of the spring bank holiday weekend ahead, spare a thought for your cast-aside ski kit too!
According to our editor … Read More
End of another ski season
April 28, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
It’s officially the end of the 2014/15 ski season. Most of the last remaining ski areas in the Alps closed their lifts this weekend. Frustratingly there’s more snow on the way…
Most ski resorts closed after Easter but a … Read More
Everest’s deadliest day
April 28, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
The BBC has described last Saturday, 25 April 2015, as Mount Everest’s “deadliest day”, when Nepal was hit by a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake and numerous avalanches in the Everest region near Kathmandu.
In recent years Mount Everest has become safer … Read More
Billy Morgan lands first-ever snowboard Quad Cork
April 15, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
British Snowboarder Billy Morgan landed himself in the world record books and opened a new chapter in snowboarding history yesterday by successfully landing a Backside 1800 Quadruple Cork.
https://youtu.be/ntANrBQ7e24
For those unfamiliar with “shredder-speak”, this crazy jump contains four off-axis … Read More
British boy killed in ski accident in Flaine
April 13, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
The seven-year-old British boy who fell to his death in the French ski resort of Flaine has been named as Carwyn Scott-Howell from Powys in Wales. According to French police, he fell after leaving the piste.
He was reported missing … Read More
Co-pilot intentionally crashed Germanwings aircraft
March 26, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Breaking news: These are the main points of the press conference held just now by the Marseille public prosecutor, Brice Robin, following the tragic crash on Tuesday 24 March of Germanwings Airbus A320
Flight 4U952 from Barcelona was destined for Duesseldorf … Read More
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
March 17, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Wishing you a very Happy St Patrick’s Day and happy skiing!…
“Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you.”
(An old Irish blessing)
Happy Mothers’ Day
March 15, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
May you and your children all have lots of fun in the snow today!
Spend the night at the top of a ski jump
March 5, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Did you see The Jump on Channel 4 last month? Do you fancy having a go at ski jumping?…
Or would you rather simply leave the energetic part to the experts and sleep in luxury at the top of a … Read More
Skiing the Sella Ronda
March 3, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Our editor, Teresa Fisher, reports on our ski tour of the Sella Ronda – the highlight of the Dolomiti Superski area, one of the largest ski areas in the world.
As I stepped out of the door of our hotel, I took … Read More
