Browsing entries tagged with Mountain
14 Mar 2022
Kings of Leon will join a long list of musical greats to close the ski season at the Austria resort of Ischgl. The American rock band will play an open-air, live gig at 2,320m at Iscghl’s “Top of the…
27 May 2021
The new head of sustainability for Hotelplan UK, owner of Inghams, Esprit Ski and Flexiski, has spoken to Where to Ski & Snowboard about her plans to create change within the company. Prue Stone, who…
21 May 2020
Mountain resorts in France are opening for summer skiing as coronavirus lockdown measure in the country are slowly lifted. Today, the Aiguille du Midi cable car in Chamonix opens for skiers for the second…
29 Oct 2018
A number of ski-themed bars are opening in the UK this autumn, getting skiers and snowboarders ready for their Alpine fix. On Friday 9 November, a new pub called The White Haus in Farringdon will open…
2 May 2018
No sooner is the 2017/18 ski season over than Crystal Ski Holidays has launched its Guide to the Mountain for winter 2018/19. Rather than the traditional tour operator brochure, the 60-page guide…
5 Apr 2018
It’s very unusual these days for ski resorts to open up whole new mountainsides for skiing. Environmental objections usually win the day. But after years of negotiating and compromising on plans, the…
17 Jan 2017
Could you handle being a brand ambassador for Sherpa Adventure Gear, testing their kit to the limits on your own adventures? The clothing company Sherpa Adventure Gear is looking for brand ambassadors…
1 Jan 2017
The Ski Club of Great Britain has bought Mountain Tracks, a respected mountain adventure company that offers off-piste skiing holidays, hut-to-hut ski tours and mountain and avalanche awareness training…
27 Dec 2016
Global navigation and mapping experts TomTom have launched a new outdoors GPS watch specifically designed for the mountain. The TomTom Adventurer GPS Outdoor Watch just does about everything you could…
8 Nov 2016
The Swiss ski resort of Verbier is offering free mountain safety courses this winter in a bid to ensure skiers venturing off-piste know more about what they’re doing. Verbier is known for its incredible…
2 Nov 2016
A new docu-series by Red Bull has followed Air Zermatt, the best aerial search rescue team in the world, as they go about their work. Air Zermatt perform around 1700 missions each year to aid stranded…
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