Great news coming from South America. Awesome ski conditions are kickstarting the ski season in Chile by a week with Portillo‘s officially cranking up the ski lifts on June 14.

Portillo combines old-world elegance, breathtaking scenery and epic skiing, all in an intimate resort that accommodates only 450 guests a week, offering an exclusive and hassle-free winter vacation.
New this season are weeks when one or two children (depending on the week) ski, eat and stay free. There are also girlfriends weeks when four women ski and stay for the price of three.
www.skiportillo.com.

Ski Portillo in Chile is to offer its first invigorating skiing and restorative yoga week this August.
Professional skiers Kate Olson and Kiffor Berg together with renowned yoga instructor Simon Park will combine their passion and expertise in both skiing and yoga to host this week-long retreat at Ski Portillo.

Over the course of the week, participants will learn new techniques to improve their skiing in the big mountain style terrain with expert coaches, video analysis, and back country awareness. Every morning and evening will begin and end with yoga classes designed to improve the on-mountain experience and cultivate greater body strength and awareness.
The Ski and Yoga Retreat runs from August 23rd to 30th and costs US$2000 per person including three hours of yoga daily and six hours of ski training. A retreat package that also includes seven nights’ accommodation, four meals daily and a seven day lift ticket costs US$4190 per person.
www.skiyoga.com

With the end of March, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd. is happy to announce that it broke an all time record for monthly unique visitors with a whopping 666.78 % to SkiRebel Magazine in March 2008 to the same period a year earlier. This staggering growth was led with incredible traffic increases of more than 2000 % on March 28th alone.

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From this summer, skiers can experience the snow at Ski Portillo, Chile then sun and sand at the new Tierra Atacama Adventure Spa in Northern Chile.

Continue reading ‘A New Winter is Upon Us: Portillo Offers Ski and Sun Holidays’

Since the relaunch of the popular skirebel.com portal in February 2007, SkiRebel Magazine has managed to attract more than 22,658 unique visitors with some 67,000 page impressions.

Since migrating the PDF only online ski magazine to a more user friendly online format, magazine management is ecstatic with the initial results. So far 2008, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd., the main shareholder of the online property is forecasting tripling online visits. So far the first week forecast is blowing that forecast out of the water.
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For the seventh year, independent ski area research company Snow24 plc, based in Scotland, Great Britain, have published their unique comparison of six-day lift ticket prices worldwide. The World Lift Ticket Price Report, sponsored by Liftopia.com, compares the high season, non-discounted, prices of ski passes at more than 550 ski areas in 40 countries* around the world in US Dollars, European Euros and British Pounds. Continue reading ‘WORLD LIFT TICKET PRICE REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED’

• Canadian resorts move in to the list of the world’s 10 most expensive tickets.
• Canadian ticket may be northern hemisphere’s most expensive outside peak season.

For the seventh year, independent ski area research company Snow24 plc, based in
Scotland, Great Britain, have published their unique comparison of six-day lift ticket prices worldwide. The World Lift Ticket Price Report, sponsored by Liftopia.com, compares the high season, non-discounted, prices of ski passes at more than 550 ski areas in 40 countries* around the world in US Dollars, European Euros and British Pounds. Continue reading ‘WORLD LIFT TICKET PRICE REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED’