Skiing holiday provider faces legal action after backtracking on promise to refund tickets for cancelled festival By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:52 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 3 May 2020 A skiing holiday provider faces legal action after backtracking on a promise to refund tickets for a cancelled festival. … Read more
DIY dad builds his daughters a ski slope in the garden after coronavirus scuppered their annual Easter holiday plans – and even created his own chair lift Snowboarding instructor Steve Cross built family a ski lift from wooden pallets His daughters Emily, 10, and Jessica, six, were thrilled with their new toy Steve turned the … Read more
A woman who landed directly on handlebars of her jet ski in a freak accident was left with a swelling blood clot on her vulva that needed to be surgically drained In a case report, published in BMJ Case Reports, the 25-year-old arrived at Professional Brooklyn Gynecological Services in New York three days after the incident. She … Read more
Spring ski trips in the sun may be off the agenda – but skiers can still post ‘panda face’ selfies thanks to a hilarious Instagram filter that superimposes goggle marks Filter has 3 looks – sunglass tan line, classic goggle tan and sunburned dad tan It’s a brainwave from Norway’s National Parks authority – Nasjonalparkriket … Read more
They said this French ski resort could never work… but 60 years later La Rosière is thriving (and the pistes never get crowded!) During the Sixties La Rosière’s first ski-lift, called the Poletta drag, opened Since then, the French resort town on the Italian border has continued to grow And with a 1,900-room Club Med … Read more
More than 250 young British ski staff are finally freed after two weeks in quarantine in the Austrian Alps close to the resort feared to be the origin of Europe’s coronavirus outbreak St. Anton was placed under stick quarantine amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis Most of the Brits stranded in the Alps were teenagers on … Read more
The UK’s coronavirus patient zero is an ‘IT consultant who caught the killer bug at an Austrian ski party’ and started spreading it here weeks earlier than was thought. Daren Bland from Maresfield, East Sussex, is understood to have infected his wife Sarah and children after returning from Ischgl in mid January. The 50-year-old had … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
If you want to take your ski holiday completely off-piste, then forget the Rockies, Sierra Nevada mountains or the Alps – try the Middle East. Or perhaps North Korea. Here we reveal some of the most unlikely locations for ski resorts. North Korea North Korea’s Masikryong ski resort opened in 2014 to compete with Pyeongchang … Read more
France shuts down its ski resorts two months early as country is put on lockdown after coronavirus death toll rose to 91 Most French ski resorts usually close in April or May but they’ll be closing today Shutdown comes just three weeks before the French and British school holidays It is another heavy blow to France’s … Read more