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The Top 10 Episodes of The Ski Podcast in 2023

The Top 10 Episodes of The Ski Podcast in 2023

Have you been listening to The Ski Podcast in the last year? In 2023 we released 33 different episodes, covering destinations from Afghanistan to Australia, Bosnia to Banff, plus interviews with everyone from Olympic champions to lift geeks. We’ve welcomed so many new listeners to The Ski Podcast in the last year, with the total...
Les Arcs article on InTheSnow.com

Les Arcs article on InTheSnow.com

Iain visited Les Arcs in December 2023 to find out more about their recent B Corp accreditation. You can now read his article about this and the resort’s other environmental acheivements at InTheSnow.com Find out more about Les Arcs’ journey to the B Corp accreditation in Episode 195 of The Ski Podcast:
David Lindsay interview on welove2ski.com

David Lindsay interview on welove2ski.com

In the second of my new series of ‘Chairlift Chat’ interviews for snowsports website welove2ski.com, I spoke to David Lindsay, son on the founder of Meribel, Sir Peter Lindsay. You can read this article here. You can also listen to the entire interview in Episode 190 of The Ski Podcast:
Snow Train article in The Telegraph

Snow Train article in The Telegraph

In December 2023, Iain travelled from London to the French Alps on the inaugural service of the new Eurostar Snow Train. His article on the trip has now been published in The Telegraph: You can read more about Iain’s journey and how the new Snow Train works at Ski Flight Free and hear Iain’s views...
Trojena: The Saudi Arabian 'Ski Resort'

Trojena: The Saudi Arabian ‘Ski Resort’

The chances are that taking a ski holiday in Saudi Arabia is not top of your bucket list but encouraged by China’s success in hosting a Winter Olympics without any natural snow, the developers of Trojena are determined to give you that opportunity. The ‘ski resort’ of Trojena will be part of NEOM, a proposed...
'Homeland': The first ski resort without lifts?

‘Homeland’: The first ski resort without lifts?

With climate change and global warming at the centre of the conversation around skiing, it’s more common to read about ski resorts closing than new ones opening. That makes ‘Homeland’ – a new ski-touring only ski resort in the Lombardy region of Italy – even more notable. The resort opened last winter above the small...