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Snow report: 22/11/2009

Skiing across international borders isn't what it used to be. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, when Europe's ski areas started to link together with lifts and runs, about a dozen of these cross-border pistes were created for those of us too lazy to hike across...
The Independent Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Obergurgl: A blast from a past master

As we speed up the mountain on one of Obergurgl's newly built, state-of-the-art chairlifts, conversation turns to the subject of marmot fat. There are lots of marmots up here, close to the border with Italy. In fact, we have been skiing over them, snug ben...
The Independent Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Chalet holidays: A snow place like home

The identity of the inventor of the ski-chalet holiday is a matter of some dispute. According to one school of thought, it was a British-based Austrian woman named Erna Low, who in 1932 placed an advertisement in the Morning Post (or possibly the New State...
The Independent Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Samoëns: A resort that goes down a treat

As a Francophile who only recently returned to skiing after a long hiatus, I was less than enamoured by the idea of the French Alps. Too many British people and concrete villages. But surely there was an authentic slice of France somewhere among the dozens...
The Independent Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Rail travel that hits the heights with carbon footprint site

What does Snowcarbon provide for the traveller? Everything you need to know in terms of getting from the UK to a ski resort by train. If you take the carbon footprint of a typical Alpine ski resort, 73 per cent of it is made up of how people get there. S...
The Independent Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Ski news: So far, so good for this season's snow

Anyone who mentions how good the autumn snow has been this year might be accused of jinxing the coming 2009-10 ski season. But the truth is that the pre-season to the coming winter has so far equalled, if not exceeded, the start of the snowy spectacular 20...
The Independent Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

High anxiety: the biggest lift-served verticals

Last winter, I was fortunate to ski the biggest lift-served verticals on both sides of the Atlantic. In the Alps, this means the long-standing leader by this measure, the Vallée Blanche above Chamonix. At approaching three vertical kilometres, it is the wo...
The Independent Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Aspen's the peak of perfection

It's been the winter that never ends in Aspen, thanks to record snowfall, `epic' conditions and gondolas full of the usual stars.
The Star Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:30:00 -0400

Valley of the stars

It's hard to know if it's the biting cold or the surrounding scene that has stopped me in my snow boots.
The Star Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:30:00 -0400

Kimberley goes cuckoo

Happy Hans has definitely seen happier days. But then, so has this former mining town and Hans' humble home, touted as the biggest cuckoo clock in the world.
The Star Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:30:00 -0400

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