Iceland’s small and basic Kerlingarfjöll ski area has stopped offering snow sports because the glaciar has receded due to climate change.
In 1961 local tourism pioneer like Valdimar Örnólfsson examined the possibility of building a ski resort in Kerlingarfjöll, which lead to the establishment of company Fannborg ehf in 1963 after agreements had been signed with authorities of Hrunamannahreppur, allowing the use of the area.
Fannborg build up an efficient resort, with sleeping accommodation, canteen, water works, electric power, drainage, hot tubs, ski lifts, roads and more, needed, for this type of activity.

Today, skiing has been stopped, because of changes in the weather, there has not been enough snow especially during the summer, and therefore has the emphasis been to use the area for hiking and other types of outdoor activity,”

said a statement from the resort.

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By Paul la Vella

Avid skiers looking forward to their annual holiday are more than likely busy poring over information on the numerous ski resort destinations available to them. Some of them just want confirmation that the resort they loved last year is still the best place to go. Others like to change things up every year, experiencing new ski challenges and collecting new stories to relate to their friends back home. Either way, the choices are abundant and depend mostly on what the skier is comfortable with, whether it is a familiar resort or new ground.

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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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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’

The Icelandic Ski Federation have put forward plans to create the world’s longest indoor ski slope to date in the country’s capital Reykjavik. The proposed slope would be 800m (approximately 2,500 feet) long with a 180m (600ft) vertical. Continue reading ‘Iceland Plans World’s Longest Indoor Ski Slope’