Gondola Crash Injures 8 at Val Thorens, France, 4 Days Ahead of Season Opening A gondola crash injured at least eight workers at Val Thorens in the Les 3 Vallées ski area in France on Tuesday, November 19. The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. in the morning, while a gondola cabin of the Cime Caron cable car was carrying 16 workers to a construction site at the top station at 3,186 meters (10,453 feet). […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | November 19, 2024 0 Comments
Val Thorens, France, Wins World’s Best Ski Resort Award On Monday, November 13, 2023, Val Thorens was awarded the World’s Best Ski Resort at the 11th World Ski Awards. The World Ski Awards were launched in 2013 by the brains behind World Travel Awards. World Ski Awards uses a voting system with votes sourced from ski tourism industry professionals, such as senior executives, travel buyers, tour operators and media as […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | November 15, 2023 0 Comments
France Opens for Skiing and Riding The 2022-23 season has officially kicked off in France. The ski areas of Val Thorens and Tignes opened their slopes to the public on Saturday, November 26th—a sight that French skiers and riders are certainly happy to see. They were the last major alpine nation in Europe to get things going for this season, seeing neighboring countries such as Austria, […] Industry News Matt Scribner | November 29, 2022 0 Comments
Race Roundup: North American Ski Cross Athletes Find Success in European Leg of Ski Cross World Cup One of the yearly highlights of the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup is the absolutely jam-packed European leg of the race tour. This portion of the Ski Cross World Cup series is known as the ‘Cross Alps Tour’ and features six World Cup races over a 10 day period. This includes double-header events in Val Thorens, France & Innichen, Italy […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | December 22, 2021 0 Comments
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2020 World Ski Award Winners Announced The World Ski Awards, launched in 2013, have announced their 2020 winners just in time for the winter 20/21 season. World World’s Best Ski Resort 2020 Winner: Val Thorens (France) -Val Thorens has won the award 7 out of the last 8 years, only bested by Kitzbuhel, Austria in 2015 World’s Best Ski Hotel 2020 Winner: W Verbier (Switzerland) United […] Industry News Taylor Stephan | November 20, 2020 0 Comments
30+ Inches of New Snow in the High Alps 2 French ski areas, Tignes and Val Thorens, are reporting over 30″ of new snowfall as of Wednesday, November 6th. Many other resorts are also reporting up to 2 feet of fresh snowfall across the Alps this week, with more on the way through the following week. Val Thorens, France has a projected opening date of November 23rd for the […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 7, 2019 0 Comments
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