Two chalet hosts with 15 years’ experience in the Alps are expanding their residential training courses in the UK this year, opening up possibilities for more youngsters to work a ski season. They are ...

The sunny weather continues across large parts of the Alps. The freezing level has been at around 3,000m with temperatures exceeding 20°C in some of the lower valleys. PlanetSKI reader, Liz Vizard, ...

The French Ski area is not the most obvious place for a late-season ski trip. All the more reason to visit in our opinion and soak up ‘slow-tourism’ as the season draws to an end. UPDATED If you want ...

For the first time in six years, the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships are being held in the Alps. After a break during the Covid pandemic followed by a couple of years in the UK, The BRITS ...

Zoe Atkin has taken the Freeski Halfpipe World Championships title at the 2025 Freestyle World Championships in Engadin/St. Moritz in Switzerland. She qualified in second place behind China’s Fanghui ...

Tucked up at the end of the Schanfigg valley in the southeastern canton of Graubünden, Switzerland is the resort of Arosa. Not heard of it? No surprise, given that over 90% of the visitors are Swiss.

PlanetSKI has spent a week touring with the Ski Club of Great Britain from its base in Chamonix. As ski touring becomes more popular we report on the full experience, and now a night in a mountain hut ...

There are spring conditions across much of the Alps and it’s time to head high for your end-of-season turns. But wintry conditions have returned to Austria with significant snowfall for some parts.

It claims to be the fourth largest ski area in France. Yet it is pretty much undiscovered by the British. Why? PlanetSKI reports. Update Friday 28th March. Now before we get to the full story of Les ...

We’ve stopped off in Istanbul in Turkey on our way back from Japan. Last year we skied in Turkey, this time round it seemed a good place simply to visit. Here’s why… Istanbul is a city like no other.

It had been thought the development in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales would be rejected after an official report failed to support the project. The local council ignored the advice and the Welsh Government ...