Is Greenland the new Iceland?

What should a tourist destination like Greenland do to attract visitors to a region most people have never considered visiting?  After all, what is there to visit?   Isn’t it just a bleak snowy and largely uninhabitable wilderness?…   Visit Greenland, the tourist … Read More

Life of a snowflake

We all love the white stuff… in fact we just can’t get enough of it… to ski, to shred, to toboggan, to throw, to make snowmen, to do snow angels… But how well do you really know snow?  What is … Read More

Children’s Week in Verbier

This week is Children’s Week in the Swiss resort of Verbier.  To celebrate, there is an exciting, week-long itinerary of special après-ski events to ensure the kids have a magical time in the mountains.

Activities include a disco on the ice … Read More

World Snow Day a massive success

The second ever World Snow Day last weekend was a huge success.  435 organisers in 39 different countries staged a variety of events that brought around 300,000 children and their families into a friendly and fun environment to celebrate all things … Read More

Armchair skiing

You can now ‘see before you ski’ in over 90 top ski areas around the world.As the name suggests, the Google Street View service which usually shows images of over 400,000km of roads.  However, in recent months, the Google snowmobiles have been scouring the ski … Read More

Herdsmen’s macaroni

During this cold snap, are your kids coming home from school with freezing noses, fingers and toes, and starving hungry?  Then, why not bring the taste of the Alps to your kitchen table for supper tonight…

We’re going to be cooking this … Read More

Mother and daughter ski holiday to Serre Chevalier

Our of the FSN team is skiing with her daughter in picturesque Serre Chevalier this week – a child-friendly French resort with over 250km of snow-sure, tree-lined runs and peaks galore.

Needless to say, there’s plenty of snow – 13cm … Read More

Ski jump crash

We can’t quite believe that this Japanese ski jumper – Daiki Ito – has finished in the World Cup Top Ten 14 times. Last year he finished fourth!

He looks like a novice here:

This hair-raising incident took place … Read More

Over 100mph – a new speed record in downhill skiing

French ski racer Johan Clarey has set an unofficial downhill speed record of 100.59 mph (161.9km/h) during a training run at the FIS World Cup in Wengen in Switzerland – the fastest speed ever recorded in Alpine ski history.

The Lauberhorn … Read More

Tigers in the snow at Longleat Safari Park

Of all the snowy pictures we’ve seen during this latest cold snap in the UK, this has to be one of our favourites…. it’s a film of tigers in the snow at Longleat Safari Park, checking out a couple of … Read More