Even if money might be a little tight, for the ski fans among us, a snowy break each winter is an absolute must-have. Here are our top tips for getting your winter fix without breaking the bank. According to recent research by Sainsbury’s Travel Money*, 73% of people taking skiing holidays this winter plan to [...]
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Football at 3,250m
August 10, 2011 – 9:52 am
Germany’s Hamburg football team chose a special pitch built 3,250m up on the side of a cliff by the Tux summer ski slopes in Austria’s Ziller Valley for a training session last week. The specially created football pitch is one of the highest in the world and gave the leading German club a unique training [...]
$14.25 Million Vail Home To Be Auctioned To Highest Bidder
July 22, 2011 – 11:24 am
A premier Vail Valley mountain residence, originally listed for $14.25 million, will be sold at a live, luxury real estate auction on August 6th 2011. The property is selling Absolute, which means it will sell to the highest bidder no matter what the eventual price. Located on the most prestigious street behind the gates of [...]
Europe Overtakes North America With The Northern Hemisphere’s Most Expensive Lift Ticket
July 18, 2011 – 4:31 pm
The most expensive six-day ski lift pass in Europe is now believed to also be the northern hemisphere’s most expensive ski lift ticket thanks to the strength of the Swiss Franc, say www.Skiinfo.co.uk. A 483 Swiss Franc six-day pass offered by the village of Täsch would currently cost around £364 / $580, whereas the most [...]
Bulgarian Government Will Legalise Illegal Ski Resort Construction
July 15, 2011 – 4:30 pm
Bulgaria’s Minister of the Environment has said that she will legalise the expansion of Bansko ski resort on to national park land, rather than tell the resort to remove the illegal construction. Bansko has been one of the big success stories of European ski resort development in recent history. However, environmental campaigners have long sought [...]
Lift Ticket Changes at Chamonix
July 11, 2011 – 11:40 am
Chamonix has cut the three choices of lift ticket options they provide down to just two. Chamonix le Pass, the first of the options available covers all lifts in Chamonix up to 2800m (not les Houches) and costing 210 Euros for an adult ticket for most of the season. The second option is the Mont-Blanc [...]
Breckenridge Plans For Peak 6 Take Step Forward
July 8, 2011 – 11:39 am
One of the most popular ski resorts in America, Breckenridge in Colorado, which is also the top destination for British skiers in the US, has been given the go-ahead by the US Forest Service, which controls the land, on their new expansion plans for new lifts and runs. Breckenridge aims to add 550 acres of [...]
May Skiathon On British Indoor Snow For Charity
March 22, 2011 – 3:55 pm
The third National Skiathon from Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) will take place on Tuesday 17th May 2011. Skiers and snowboarders of all ages and abilities are invited to take part alongside the British Disabled Ski team and some of Britain’s top freestylers and celebrities (soon to be announced). Teams of 6 are challenged to ski [...]
Woman Spends Night In Whistler Gondola
March 12, 2011 – 3:50 pm
It has emerged that a woman spent a night in a gondola cabin at Whistler on the evening of March 1st. The woman concerned apparently boarded the lift shortly before it stopped. It had been ‘cleared’ between 5.30 and 6pm in the evening. She was found in reportedly good shape over 13 hours later when [...]
Ski Writer Clocks Up 54th Nation Skied
March 5, 2011 – 10:31 am
At the end of 2010 ski writer Jimmy Petterson (www.skiingaroundtheworld.net) skied his 53rd and 54th country after adding Ecuador and Venezuela to his long list. “Adding new countries to my list is really not as easy as it used to be, as I am slowly running out of countries that have ski lifts.” said Jimmy. [...]
