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

Ski Features

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	Peisey-Vallandry Peisey-Vallandry is located on the edge of the Vanoise National Park, within the Tarentaise Massif in the French Alps. The resort is at the heart o... Read more	Borovets Borovets is situated on the northern slopes of the Rila Mountains, in the west of Bulgaria, 72km (45 miles) south of the capital Sofia. Borovets is... Read more	Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada is located within the provinces of Granada and Almería in Spain’s southernmost mainland region, Andalusia. The area is a... Read more
Banff Banff is located in the western Canadian province of Alberta, 120km (75 miles) west of Calgary. The resort itself is 16km (10 miles) inside Banff N... 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	Bansko Bansko is situated on the River Glazne in the northeastern foothills of the Pirin Mountains, 165km (103 miles) south of Bulgaria’s capital So... Read more	Formigal Formigal is located in the upper Tena Valley of northeastern Spain’s Aragon Pyrenees mountains. The ski area is close to the French border, n... Read more