Dramatic cable car rescue

Dozens of tourists, including young children, had to be rescued after being trapped overnight in small cable-cars dangling over the slopes of Mont Blanc, in Chamonix in the French Alps. It took two days to complete the massively complex and … Read More

Can’t see the piste map?… here’s the answer!

Here are the perfect goggles for those of us who, like our editor, have come of a certain age and now need to put their specs on in order to see the piste map!

RX Sport specialises in high … Read More

Cheapest train tickets to the Alps

If you’re already dreaming about next ski season, we have some good news.  Tickets for the Ski Train to the Alps for the whole season go on sale at 9am today.  We anticipate they’ll be popular as more and more … Read More

Crystal switches to train transfers

Crystal Ski Holidays is implementing train transfers instead of coach travel to all Swiss ski resorts from December 2016.  It will make family flight transfers with babies, toddlers, buggies and baggage much easier.

Starting this coming … Read More

Russian doping scandal

Today the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is holding emergency talks to decide whether all Russian athletes will be banned at the Olympic games in Rio next month, due to the biggest doping scandal in the IOC’s history.

It has … Read More

Post-Brexit price freeze

“Don’t panic!” is the message from leaders in the ski industry following UK’s big Brexit decision to leave the European Union on 23 June.  Many ski tour operators are freezing their holiday prices post-Brexit for the foreseeable future.

Perhaps you … Read More

World Ski Cup resorts announced

The FIS today announced the resorts for the 2021 FIS Freestyle & Snowboard, Nordic and Alpine events and for the 2020 FIS Ski Flying World Championships. 

Planica in Slovenia was unanimously elected to host the 2020 FIS Ski Flying World Championships.

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Strong Franc affects Swiss tourism

Visitor numbers to Switzerland over the winter have dropped. Our financial advisor, Peter Derrick reports on how the tourism industry is now calling for government action, to avoid further decline in the number of skiers and snowboarders to the Swiss … Read More

Cleaning up Everest

There’s one foot of fresh snow at Everest Basecamp today and, as climbing teams get ready for the brief summit window later this month, we focus on one company who are leading the mission to clean up Everest with their … Read More

easyJet winter flights on sale

Winter flights for the season 2016/17 are now on sale. So, if you like to travel independently when you go skiing, now is your opportunity to clinch a bargain price.  

EasyJet fly to many of the main ski … Read More