Room with a view in Courchevel

Love is in the air in Courchevel – the French ski resort is offering four lucky guests the chance to spend the night in one of their cable cars at an altitude of 2,738 metres.

The team in Courchevel ski resort are … Read More

Happy Valentines Day

… and HAPPY HALF TERM SKIING from all the team at FamilySkiNews.com!

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How to meet James Bond on Valentines Day

Meeting Daniel Craig on the ski slopes… what more could a girl ask for on Valentine’s Day? 

If you’re skiing in Sölden in the Austrian Tirol tomorrow, you might just be in luck. 

Today and tomorrow (Valentine’s Day) Daniel … Read More

How to avoid the half-term ski crowds

If you’re heading out to the slopes this weekend for your half-term family ski holiday, along with crowds of other families, you’re sure to have a brilliant week as the snow’s plentiful and in fantastic condition at the moment.  However … Read More

Kronplatz – Skiing on the Panettone

Picture this – a mountain shaped like a Panettone, that delicious sweet Italian bread, full of flavours of vanilla, citrus and candied fruit.  

Aptly enough, it’s located in Italy, in the Dolomite Mountains, and it’s called Kronplatz. 

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Visually-impaired skier Millie Knight makes history

Visually impaired skier Millie Knight (age 16) and her ski guide Jennifer Kehoe have won the Overall World Cup GS in St Moritz, Switzerland.  No British skier, disabled or non-disabled, has ever won a ski racing Crystal Globe in any … Read More

New 3D Skiing App launches this Saturday

Do you use skiing Apps?  If so, FATMAP is BIG news for you?… The eagerly awaited 3D skiing app, FATMAP, launches this Saturday 7th February, boasting the world’s most detailed 3D ski maps.  To celebrate the launch, it’s … Read More

Love is in the air this Valentines Day

Quick… get a babysitter so you can ride the romantic Olympic cable car this Valentine’s Day in the French resort of Val d’Isère.       

For the third year running, the Val d’Isère Olympic cable car will turn into … Read More

From The Snow Centre to The Jump

The Jump airs at 7pm on Channel 4 tonight for its second series. As with the first series, the celebrity competitors all discovered their skiing legs at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead before jetting out to the Austrian Tirol to … Read More

The Jump App

Are you ready for the new series of The Jump, which starts tomorrow night at 7pm on Channel 4?  It certainly has an entertaining line-up of celebrities.

We wonder how many of them can actually ski, yet alone ski-jump.

According … Read More