In the fourth of this series of interviews, Iain Martin, presenter of The Ski Podcast, chats with expert British backcountry instructor, Blair Aitken Blair is a former Alpine national ski...
Category - Where To Ski
Don’t get us wrong – Austria’s Tirol region is one of the world’s best ski areas, which is hardly surprising considering it’s home to 500 peaks with summits that reach 3,000 metres and over. But this...
We all love our ski trips and although most of us are not oblivious to the environmental cost these trips entail, sometimes it is hard to know how best to mitigate their impact. Studies show that the...
Michael Cranmer was in Ischgl for the ’23/24 opening weekend, and it wasn’t too shabby… Friday 24 November 13.50 Black Friday in the UK. Damp, dank and dreary. Am I downhearted? Not at...
Dan Fox, owner of Ski Weekends has been running holidays to the Portes du Soleil for almost 20 years. So who better to pull back the cover on the ‘other side’ of Les Gets… (get your...
Austria...by train...from the UK? It’s surely too far – or so I used to imagine. How wrong I was.
Popular with British families since the '60s, Gurgl is a charming, high-altitude area made up of two resorts with magnificent scenery, a long ski season and cheerful après-ski.
The area is made up of 23 resorts spread across the Vercors, the Oisans, Belledonne and Chartreuse mountain ranges.
In terms of sustainability, rail travel creates only a fraction of the carbon emissions of flying or driving.
Hotel Sassongher in Corvara sits on a rise, dominating the village just under the mountain of the same name.