
What does your ski pass money get spent on?
Have you ever wondered where the money from your increasingly expensive lift pass goes? French ski resort Alpe d’Huez have answered that question by publishing a full breakdown of how they spend the income from lift pass sales. The price of a day pass in Alpe d’Huez is €62. That scales down to just over...

Fire at Chamonix swimming pool
Yesterday afternoon (09 January 2024) a huge fire broke out at the Richard Bozon swimming pool in Chamonix at around 17:30 CET. Around 50 swimmers were quickly evacuated and there were no injuries. A friend of ours was in the changing rooms with her children at the time: “It was a very narrow escape. We...

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
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
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’
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...