Freestyle skiing in Flaine

Office de Tourisme de Flaine / C Arnal

Heli-skiing in Verbier

Creative Commons / Alex Grechman

Boarder in Chamonix

Creative Commons / cristiano esclapon

Montgenèvre's vast ski area

OT Montgenèvre / T.Durand / E.Molle

Ski Resort Guides & Features

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Strange skiing: Off-piste in… Kyrgyzstan In the penultimate entry of our strange skiing series, Tristan Kennedy hits the slopes of Kyrgyzstan, sampling fermented horse milk and the bloody... Read more	Strange skiing: Off-piste in… Afghanistan In the third of our strange skiing series, Ian J Lynch goes in search of the perfect slope in Bamiyan province, Afghanistan. Read more	Strange skiing: Off-piste in… North Korea In the second of our strange skiing series, Tim Neville reports from the propaganda-lined pistes of Masikryong, North Korea’s best (and only... Read more
Strange skiing: Off-piste in… Georgia In the first of our new strange skiing series, William Everett drinks brandy, eats khachapuri and gets fondled on the slopes of Gudauri, Georgia... Read more	Returning from the End of the World We have always wondered what we would discover at the End of the World, so we sent Daniel Fahey to find out. Read more	The 19 strangest places to ski Hitting the slopes this winter? Then have you considered the pistes of Algeria, Pakistan or Iran? Didn't think so. But perhaps you should - some... Read more

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Chamonix Chamonix is situated in the Haute-Savoie region of France, in the French Alps. It is bordered by Switzerland and Italy and dominated by the Aiguill... Read more	Barèges Barèges is located in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of southwest France, at the foot of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre Mountain, close to the Spanish b... Read more	Kranjska Gora Some 90km (56 miles) northwest of Ljubljana, Kranjska Gora sits in the Sava Dolinka valley separating the Karavanke Mountains from the Julian Alps.... Read more	Méribel Méribel lies in the Savoie region of the French Alps, above the town of Moûtiers, with Courchevel to the east, and Les Menuires and Val Thorens t... Read more
Alpe d'Huez Alpe d'Huez is situated in the Grandes Rousses Mountains in the southern French Alps, high above the Oisans Valley. Read more	Megève Megève is located in the Haute Savoie region of the French Alps, close to Western Europe’s highest peak, Mont Blanc; within the Pays du Mont Bla... Read more	Bad Gastein Bad Gastein is located in the Gastein Valley, within the westerly Austrian province of Salzburger Land. The local Hohe Tauern Mountains are a part ... Read more	Mammoth Mammoth is located on the eastern edge of California's Sierra Nevada range. It is to the east of Yosemite National Park (access road closed in wint... Read more