Verbier opens this weekend

Verbier will be the first resort in Suisse-Romande (French-speaking Switzerland) to open… but just for weekends for now.

Daily opening is due to start later this month, snow permitting.

In recent days the resort has received 50-60cm of fresh white … Read More

Olympic torch relay to North Pole

As the first month of the Sochi Winter Olympic Torch Relay draws to a close, FamilySkiNews looks at the torch’s progress to date, including a historic visit to the North Pole!

The torch was first lit from the rays of … Read More

Vertigo buys Ski Famille

Vertigo Holidays has acquired the small specialist family ski tour operator, Ski Famille, for an undisclosed sum.

Vertigo is a new company run by Peter Dyer, founder of both Crystal and Enigma (owner of Esprit and Total Ski).

Dyer said of the … Read More

Snowing in the Alps

It’s snowing in the Alps…

What better timing, just as the London Ski & Snowboard Show ends and we look forward to the winter season ahead.

The snowfall has been heaviest in the eastern Alps over the weekend, with some … Read More

Bell brothers win World Snow Award

Ski brothers and ex-Olympic racers Martin and Graham Bell jointly won the Lifetime Achievement award for  Outstanding Contribution to UK Snowsports at the second annual World Snow Awards ceremony in London last night.

The editor of the Telegraph Ski and Snowboard magazine, Henry … Read More

Crystal wins Best Ski Company award

Crystal Ski, the UK’s leading ski holiday tour operator, has once again won’ Best Overall Ski & Wintersports Operator’ at the prestigious 2013 British Travel Awards.

Crystal has previously won the award in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.  This year they beat … Read More

Fun, fun, fun… at the London Ski Show

Editor, Teresa Fisher reports…

Yesterday, I took my kids (aged 10 and 11) to the opening day of the London Ski and Showboard Show.

As I had a full diary of press meetings, I needed them to entertain themselves, so I … Read More

Learn to snowboard in London

If your children are desperate to try out snowboarding, be sure to take them to the London Ski and Snowboard Show this half term (from 30 October-3 November).

The brilliant kids’ snowboarding school, Burton Riglet Park, will be attending the … Read More

Free holiday, ski lessons and lift passes

The London Ski Show opens tomorrow.  If last year’s fabulous, ultra-family-friendly show is anything to go by, it should be worth attending!

This time tomorrow you could be skating around on an indoor ice rink, having your first ski or … Read More

Come and meet Team GB Winter Olympic athletes

A number of athletes from the British Winter Olympics team will be at the Ski and Snowboard Show at London’s Earls Court this week.

Before they head off to compete in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, they will be spending some … Read More