Games organizers on a recent visit to the site: Val Aosta, Italy.
Seven hundred military athletes from 40 nations will face the snows to compete for the victory in the first Military World Winter Games this spring.
For six days at Val d’Aosta, Italy from March 20th to 25th, the whole valley will be marked by a brilliant display of uniforms from different national army, navy and airforce staff that are competing in Nordic skiing, biathlon, downhill skiing, climbing and short track.
Events will be staged in the villages of Brusson (for the biathlon), Cogne (Nordic ski races and ski orienteering), Courmayeur (climbing and short-track), Gressoney-Saint-Jean (women’s giant slalom and slalom), Flassin of Saint-Oyen (Alpine skiing), and Gressan (men’s slalom and giant slaom).
An Italian-based artificial surface ski slope manufacturer has launched a new division manufacturing carpet lifts.
Snowsun Srl is now manufacturing the ski belt carpet lift, 100m (330 feet) long and 60cm (two feet) wide and installed it in Sardegna in Italy. The carpet lift has a modular design with three metre sections and can thus be any length between 50 and 150m long. The lifts are for use with its slopes or with any artificial or regular snow slope, indoors or outdoors.
The new Pancheron lift. Cervinia is connected by piste and lifts to Zermatt across the border in Switzerland.
Italy’s Cervinia ski resort has made a major investment of 11.5 million Euros into a state-of-the-art new chairlift.
The new Pancheron six-seat lift, which has all the latest safety features, departs from the top of Cretaz near the arrival station of the Cretaz chairlift, and has an hourly uplift capacity of 3,000 people. The lift rises 512 vertical metres (1680ft) from 2,438m (7997ft) above-sea-level to 2,950m (9676ft), providing access to an expanded Cretaz sector.
The Alpine ski area straddles the Italy-Slovenia border.
The new ski piste linking Slovenia’s Kanin ski resort with the Italian resort of Sella Nevea had its official opening on December 23rd 2009, creating the first international ski area in the region and the first lift to cross the old iron curtain.
The new aerial lift and ski run provides a wider choice of slopes for winter sports enthusiasts in the region. A single lift pass will give skiers and snowboarders access to the pistes on both the Slovenian and Italian sides of the border. Daily lift passes for Kanin-Sella Nevea area start from €24 (21£) per adult and €15 (£13) per child.
Acheampong tearing down the slopes at Val Di Fiemme.
Kwame Nkrumah Acheampong, a.k.a. Snow Leopard, has switched his training from his indoor location at Hemel Hempstead’s Snow Centre to Val Di Fiemme, in Trentino, Italy.
This is the fourth season that the African skier has based himself in this perfect location that has already seen him qualify for the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.
The ski resort of Pampeago in Val Di Fiemme sits at 1750m (5740ft) above sea level and morning training runs leave most training skiers gasping for air. Once on the slopes Acheampong is at home, honing his technique and race speed, and continuing his interesting story. Acheampong is expected to be the first person from Ghana to take part in the Winter Olympics.
A hotel near the Arabba Marmolada glacier in Italy.
Ski resorts all over Western Euorpe are reportedly enjoying up to a metre of snowfall after a large snow storm this week.
The Italian Alps got the best of the snows, in places like Piemonte, Lombardia, Valle d’Aosta and Alto Adige. But resorts in Switzerland, France, Austria and Andorra have also benefited from the weather.
Some of the continent’s biggest resorts are now open for the winter, including Val d’Isere and Tignes in France, Zermatt and Verbier in Switzerland and Obergurgl in Austria.
Hoping to attract more vacationers during the early and late parts of the ski season, Livigno ski resort has announced it will offer free lift passes to those looking for an extended stay before Christmas or after April 17th.
By extended stay, the resort means at least four nights in a hotel or seven nights in apartment with participating accommodation providers. The free ski pass offer also has limited availability.
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