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Orelle wins award for new zip wire to Val Thorens
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Regular visitors to our blog may recall that we tested out the new zip wire in the Three Valleys last winter. Flying at 300om Located at the top of Orelle and stretching 1.3km between two peaks both higher than 3000m, …
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Tagged orelle, val thorens, zip wire
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The 15 Most Visited Ski Resorts in the World
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We all like a list (we’re drafting our letter to Santa right now!), but most are not as interesting as this one. You might well have debated which is the world’s most popular ski resort. Well now we have a …
Posted in Breckenridge, Courchevel, Ischgl, kitzbuhel, Les Arcs, Meribel, Val Thorens
Tagged alta badia, breckenridge, la plagne, les arcs, mayrhofen, sestriere, vail
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New Hybrid Piste Groomer Hits The Slopes
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There’s a paradox in skiing that it’s a sport that’s very hard to enjoy without creating even more of the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change and threaten the future of the sport. Many ski resorts fully recognise this …
Posted in Alpe d'Huez, Courchevel, serre chevalier, Val Thorens
Tagged piste bashers, piste groomers, sustainability
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Work at the Folie Douce – now also in Megève
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This winter sees the opening of the latest – and fifth – Folie Douce in St Gervais Megève. Open air clubbing at altitude Regular skiers to France will probably have come across one of the existing Folie Douce venues, which …
Posted in megeve, Meribel, Val d'Isere, Val Thorens
Tagged folie douce, megeve, meribel, val d'isere, val thorens
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Google ‘Piste View’ adds more ski resorts
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Obviously we’d prefer to be out on the slopes, but if you can’t make it there in person, Google are making it easier than ever to imagine you’re there. First resort with ‘Piste View’ was Whistler After starting with Whistler …
Posted in Cervinia, Soldeu, Val Thorens
Tagged cervinia, google, piste view, val thorens
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Testing The Highest Zip Wire in the World…in Val Thorens
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You may have already heard of La Tyrolienne – the new zip wire that runs from Orelle to Val Thorens in Les 3 Vallees. It opened last month in February 2014 to become the highest zip wire in the world – so …
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Tagged les 3 vallees, orelle, tyrolienne, val thorens, zip line, zip wire
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World’s highest zip wire opens in Val Thorens
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If skiing and snowboarding wasn’t thrilling enough for you, this should blow your socks off. The new zip wire that has just opened in Val Thorens is the highest in the world and will take you 1300m in 1 minute …
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Val Thorens is ‘Best Ski Resort in the World’
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This weekend, the World Ski Awards in Kitzbuhel saw the best resorts, hotels and chalets across twenty different countries. Val Thorens in France was named as the Best Ski Resort, which took not only the title of best resort in …
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New Lifts in Val Thorens for winter 2013/14
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Val Thorens is the highest ski resort in Europe and always one of the first to open. This season the lifts will start turning over on 23 November 2013, so with just over a month to go, we take a …
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Tagged les 3 vallees, orelle, val thorens
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