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Family friendly Valmorel in the French Alps is making a major investment in new lifts ahead of the ski season.
The new eight-seat cabin Pierrafort gondola starts from the hamlet of Crève-Coeur and arrives at the bottom of the Mottet chairlift.
In addition the new Combe du Morel chairlift is a six-seater easy-access chairlift starting just below the current Morel drag lift and arriving at the top of the Arnouillaz.
Les 2 Alpes closed for summer skiing and boarding at the weekend but
plans to re-open over an 11 day period at the end of October for its annual ski and board testing, competition and festival event.
Nowadays Tignes is the only French resort that tries to stay open from September inwards, with most French resorts opening from the end of November onwards, but Les 2 Alpes has always had a big success with opening ove
Eurostar, the high speed passenger service linking the UK and mainland Europe...
Eurostar, the high speed passenger service linking the UK and mainland Europe, has today opened ticket sales for its direct ski services from St Pancras International and Ashford International to the heart of the French Alps.
This earlier launch makes it easier for skiers and boarders to compare prices and services with airlines and confirm travel plans.
The direct seasonal ski services will run from Saturday 17 December (day services) and Friday 23 December (n
After a month or so of rapidly thawing snow on the glaciers of the Alps...
After a month or so of rapidly thawing snow on the glaciers of the Alps, snow storms descended at the weekend bringing powder conditions.
Saas Fee which re-opened for snowsports two weeks ago had to cancel the The Saas-Fee Ride 11 summer Freeski competition they had planned.
Les 2 Alpes summer ski area is staging...
Les 2 Alpes summer ski area is staging a ‘Snow Electro Fest’ from 28 - 30 July.
Described as, “a fun weekend at Les 2 Alpes with freestyle skiing and snowboard competitions and an electro-music DJ at 3,600m above sea level it will be a real festival on Les 2 Alpes glacier.” by a resort spokesperson, the Electro Fest will take advantage of the facilities available until late August at one of the world’s largest summer ski areas.
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La Plagne celebrates its 50th birthday this winter....
La Plagne celebrates its 50th birthday this winter marking the start of an era in which all the ‘third generation’ or ‘newer’ ski resorts in the Alps built in the 1960s hit their big-5-0.
The big day itself is 21st December 2011 when the resort plans a celebratory evening of
entertainment and a live show.
The show will be a ‘home-grown’, grass roots tribute to the resort with a local cast made up of those who are invol
The MS Trust is again staging it’s now annual Monster Ski challenge in Tignes
The MS Trust is again staging it’s now annual Monster Ski challenge in Tignes, next winter in order to raise funds for the charity which works to enable people with MS to live their lives to the full by providing evidence-based information; educating health professionals about multiple sclerosis; and funding research to help people living with MS now.Not for the faint of heart, the endurance challenge requires participants to ski the equivalent of the height of Mount Everes
There will be some big changes at les arcs next winter...
There will be some big changes at les arcs next winter with a superb new spa at Arc 1950 and the remarkable Edenarc accommodation development at Arc 1800 but on the slopes too there’ll be a few improvements.
The biggest will be seen at Arc 1600 where the chairlift Mont Blanc will be replaced by a new bigger and faster lift.
This new detachable chairlift will provide direct access to the “Les deux têtes” area.
As a result t
The two passes there are now Chamonix le Pass..
The two passes there are now Chamonix le Pass - covering all lifts in Chamonix up to 2800m (not les Houches) and costing 210 Euros for an adult ticket for most of the season; and the Mont-Blanc Unlimited covering all of Chamonix Valley and Courmayeur it Italy (as well as Verbier in Switzerland for 6 day passes and above).
A new Michelin culinary star has been awarded to the famous French resort of Val d’Isère.
A new Michelin culinary star has been awarded to the famous French resort of Val d’Isère. This time it is local Antony Tempesta who has been recognised by the Michelin restaurant guide for his gastronomic excellence at his family restaurant, La Becca.
Learning from the best, Antony began his career with the legends that are Michel Husser, Régis Marcon, Marc Veyrat and Gilles Goujou.
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