At one end of the world’s largest ski area sits Europe’s highest resort, Val Thorens - T Loubere/OT Val Thorens The resort’s position at the head of the Belleville Valley, surrounded by a horseshoe of ...

The light was beginning to fade as we reached the Pointe Collet Blanc. We’d traversed in through a series of increasingly untracked bowls from a lift 500m above Val Thorens and just a few minutes ...

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‘A skiing holiday? You? Really?” Incredulity was the common response when I told friends I was off for a week to the French Alps. To be fair, their doubts mirrored my own. I have notoriously bad ...

It’s a bluebird day, the air is a crisp minus 9 degrees, the snow fresh and plentiful, and when I step off the chairlift at the Cime Caron summit above Val Thorens, I’m greeted by a panorama of snowy ...