Resort News
Les Deux Alpes voted European Resort of the Year
November 6, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Les 2 Alpes in the southern French Alps has been named European Resort of the Year. The announcement was made yesterday at the World Snow Awards ceremony, which took place at the London Ski and Snowboard Show.
The team at … Read More
James Bond in Austria
October 25, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
The 24th James Bond film, SPECTRE, will hit the big screen tomorrow, Monday 26th October 2015, filmed against a backdrop of the Ötztaler Alps in Sölden and the mountain village of Obertilliach in East Tirol.
A total of thirty … Read More
Valmorel goes virtual
October 12, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Many resorts say they are ‘family friendly’, but reporter Briony Key discovered now Valmorel goes the extra mile to make sure these words have true meaning, and how the resort is encouraging everyone to see for themselves by taking a … Read More
Canada’s first heated chairlift
September 18, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
As resorts prepare for the forthcoming season, many are announcing new ski lifts, newly combined ski areas, new pistes, but one development stood out from the crowd – Canada’s first heated chairlift.
It’s bright orange, it’s in Sunshine Village Resort … Read More
Ski resorts continue to exaggerate piste lengths
September 12, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Two years ago, German research by Christoph Schrahe exposed many of the world’s top ski resorts for lying about the size of their resort or the length of their pistes.
Since then, despite recommendations by FIANET (the International Federation … Read More
The Mont-Blanc Ultra Trail starts today in Chamonix
August 24, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 2015 starts in the French town of Chamonix at 5.30pm today. It is the ultimate mountain team endurance race, taking in 7 valleys, 71 glaciers, 400 summits as thousands of runners from around the globe participate … Read More
A ski holiday without snow
August 16, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
What do you do if you book an early ski holiday and there’s no snow? Is it really so awful?… Here’s what happened to one family in mid-December last season, when snow in the Alps was particularly thin on the … Read More
007 Walk of Fame opens in Switzerland
August 1, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
The world‘s first 007 Walk of Fame opens today atop the Shilthorn mountain in Switzerland. The Schilthorn is part of the ski area of the Swiss resort of Mürren and has been associated with 007 ever since the 1969 movie On … Read More
150th anniversary of the Matterhorn
July 15, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
One hundred and fifty years ago today, on 15 July 1865, the mighty Swiss Matterhorn was first scaled by British climber, Edward Wymper.
It was an ascent fraught with difficulty and drama as Whymper and his team … Read More
Late season skiing in Trysil
June 15, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
A seasoned skier in the Alps, this Easter our teen-ski-correspondent, Katie Campkin, discovered the joys of skiing in Norway, late season snow and how affordable Scandinavia can be, even if you book it all yourself. Here’s her story:
