St. Gervais ski resort

There has been a long and bitter rivalry between ski resorts in Europe for almost 200 years. In fact, I have no trouble imagining a couple of Gallic Neanderthals turning their noses up at the slopes outside their neighbours caves several thousand years ago. However, one can only really go on the recommendations of people who have already been.

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Chamonix takes in number 1 spot with British skiers as per EasyJet's compilation.

European discount airline Easyjet recently released the top-10 winter ski resort destinations by  British skiers and have compiled them into a hot list. Ski Rebel Magazine has managed to get a copy and has them available for you if you read on…

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Revelstoke, BC, in the winter.

Revelstoke Mountain Resort has launched the new Revelstoke Outdoors Centre (ROC), which brings together the industry’s top ski and boarding pros with guiding excellence.

Programs at the British Columbia resort now include avalanche skills courses, guided backcountry/slackcountry trips, cat or heliski preparation sessions and specialty education options.

Also new this winter, Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing is expanding its programs to include more customized options, one of which is to fly directly from the Nelsen Lodge, at the base of the resort.

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Valle Nevado ski resort was far enough to not be seriously damaged by the earthquake.

Last Saturday a massive earthquake struck just off the Chilean coast near Concepcion which is south of Santiago.

Santiago, located 310 miles north of the epicenter, suffered damage to some buildings, many of which were older structures located principally in the city’s downtown.

Fortunately, Valle Nevado ski area and the road that connects the resort to Santiago were not affected. Following an exhaustive inspection engineers found only a few minor cosmetic damages at Valle’s hotels and buildings.

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Panorama ski resort in British Columbia, Canada.

Since being sold by Intrawest earlier this year, BC’s Panorama ski resort has gone forward with a number of new initiatives to improve its skiing experience.

The new Showoff Terrain Park alongside the Mile 1 quad has quickly been rated the biggest and best in the Rockies according the resort staff. The resort also greatly improved facilities for first-time skiers and riders by enlarging the novice ski area and installing the 135 metre long Red Carpet lift.

In addition this year, intermediate and advanced riders are benefitting from extensive trail work. The expanse of Founders Ridge is now easier to reach and easier to ski. Ostrander Alley, Strobl Strasse, and McIntosh Way have been re-graded and it’s now an easy cruise to some of the best intermediate skiing available.

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One of the world’s original ski websites, Ifyouski.com, has a brand new look after dishing £100,000 into website upgrades.

Now over 10 years old, and one of the UK’s leading snow-sport websites, ifyouski can trace its roots back to the paper publishing era and the 1993 book, ‘The Complete Skier.’ It was written by ex-British Freestyle team member and Harvard MBA Michael Liebreich who went on to set up completeskier.com, later renamed ifyouski.com.

The site has some 60,000 newsletter subscribers and 300,000 unique monthly visitors through the winter months.

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The Ski season is all year round in the UK.

Scotland’s indoor snow slope is bringing back it’s Himalayan ski challenge this summer.

After a two year break, July 24th 2010 sees the return of the Ski Everest Challenge to SNO!zone  at Xscape, Braehead, Glasgow.

The Ski Everest Challenge is no small feat. Individuals are challenged to complete 45 runs – the equivalent of the peak height of Mount Everest (8850m / 29035 feet).

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