Well knock me down with a deftly-aimed ski pole. Have you seen who’s headlining this year’s Altitude Comedy Festival? Eddie Izzard. For several weeks the organisers have been promising to pull a...

Have you ever heard of Madesimo? The handful of the skiers I asked whilst researching this post responded by saying: “Oh yes, I went with my school back in the 1970s!” Everyone else seemed to have...

There’s a bit of a shindig taking place in Meribel this weekend as the world’s top women skiers descend on the resort (literally) for the World Cup Downhill and Super Combined Events. It’s the first...

Okay, so just about everything in Are, Sweden is underrated: the on-piste skiing, the restaurants, the apres-ski (at weekends, at least), the quality of the accommodation. We Brits are so fixated on...

Family ski holidays are a tricky business. You’ve got the needs and requirements of several people to accommodate, some of whom may not be used to skiing all day (especially if they’re small). You...

I’ve just been reacquainting myself with the two best ski runs in Are, Sweden, They’re called Lindsrappet and Gastrappet: two hell-for-leather pistes which tumble down the lower flanks of Areskutan...

Sometimes you just don’t have the time to explore a whole ski area. Maybe you’re on a weekend getaway to the Alps. Or perhaps you’re on a week-long ski holiday, but you’ve decided to take a day trip...

So you’ve just booked your annual ski holiday. The early signs are good – as weeks of expectation become days, the snow forecast picks up. You gleefully devour Sean’s bi-weekly snow reports, as...

When you’re a skier it’s often the little things that count – such as a lift from the hotel ski locker/ski shop which give you direct access to and from the slopes; and said lift has a bouncy, padded...