16th February 2024
GB’s Zoe Atkin on the Podium Again
Great Britain’s halfpipe skier, Zoe Atkin, has won World Cup bronze. It adds to her impressive tally of medals so far this season. NEW
Jane Peel
15th February 2024
February Skiing in Scotland
Snow and cold temperatures arrived in Scotland just in time for the school holidays. Two of our reporters have been out on the hill – with mixed results.
15th February 2024
The Mighty Coe Winter Sessions Announced
The annual festival of snowsports at Scotland’s Glencoe ski resort will take place on Saturday 2nd March. Tickets go on sale today.
14th February 2024
A Visit to the Intersport ‘Boot Doctor’
There’s a point in every skier’s life when it’s time to buy your own ski boots. For Pip Martin, the time had come to say goodbye to rental boots this winter.
13th February 2024
Stay Safe on the Pistes
An animated film to help young skiers & snowboarders learn about safety on the pistes has been released to coincide with the busy February school holiday period. It comes as safety is becoming a growing concern with PlanetSKI contacted by the mainstream media on the subject.
9th February 2024
Cost of Day Lift Passes in Europe’s Ski Resorts Outpace Inflation
The average cost of one-day lift pass in European ski resorts has risen almost 35% above inflation over the past eight years, according a recent study.
30th January 2024
Skiing & Healing in Gastein
PlanetSKI’s Jane Peel has just spent some time in Bad Gastein in Austria. For the skiing, obviously. But she’s also been enjoying – or perhaps enduring – the strangest experience she’s ever had on a ski trip.
26th January 2024
Dave Ryding: The PlanetSKI Interview
GB’s greatest alpine ski racer has been speaking exclusively to PlanetSKI’s Jane Peel about the season so far and the potentially bright future for the GB alpine team.
24th January 2024
PlanetSKI at Schladming Night Slalom as Ryding Comes 14th
The spectacular Schladming World Cup Night Slalom has taken place in the Austrian resort. PlanetSKI was slopeside for THE greatest slalom race of the season.
19th January 2024
Obertauern Revisited
It’s many, many years since PlanetSKI’s Chief Reporter visited Obertauern, one of Austria’s highest non-glacier resorts. She’s back to see what it’s like in 2024.
11th January 2024
Winter Snowstorms Hit North America
A man has died after an inbounds avalanche in Palisades Tahoe in California. Another has died off piste in Idaho. After a poor start to the season, ski resorts across North America have seen significant snowfall with more in the forecast. UPDATED
11th January 2024
RIP Ian Baxter
Tributes are being paid to a legend of Scottish and British skiing, Ian Baxter. The accomplished skier and father of Olympic ski racers Alain and Noel Baxter has died at the age of 78. NEW
9th January 2024
Ryding Aiming to Bounce Back in Wengen
GB’s greatest alpine skier, Dave Ryding, will be back in action at the classic World Cup race meeting in Wengen this Sunday after a disappointing result last weekend. UPDATED
7th December 2023
Ski Legends Turn Out to Honour Klammer
More than 30 skiing legends have gathered in the Austrian resort of Bad Kleinkirchheim to join in the 70th birthday celebrations for one of the greatest downhill racers of all time, Franz Klammer. They took part in a race with a difference and PlanetSKI was slopeside.
2nd December 2023
Gold & Silver for GB Snowsport Athletes
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the team snowboard cross in Les2Alps. It follows a second place for Kirsty Muir in the World Cup Big Air competition in Beijing. UPDATED
5th April 2023
Skier Numbers Back to Normal After Covid
The ski industry bounced back last season with the USA seeing more skiers than ever before, according to the latest International Report on Snow & Mountain Tourism.
3rd April 2023
An Unexpected Weekend in Les3Vallées
Sometimes things are meant to be. PlanetSKI was due to be part of a team competing in the Enduro, a fun skiing challenge of events across the whole 3 Valleys. Forecast poor weather forced its cancellation before we even arrived. Bad news? Apparently not.
3rd April 2023
PlanetSKI’s Six Great Resorts in France for Spring Skiing
With good snow conditions in high altitude areas of the French Alps, we are looking at late season skiing & Spring skiing. We bring you PlanetSKI’s choice for April skiing & snowboarding.
30th March 2023
British Snowsport Athletes End Season with 50 Top Level Podiums
Even before the season was over, British skiers and snowboarders had, for the first time, won medals in every discipline at elite level competitions. Now it’s a wrap and they’ve made it to the big FIVE-O.
29th March 2023
Spring Skiing in Andorra
PlanetSKI’s Chief Reporter has finally plugged a big gap in her ski knowledge. She’s been skiing in Andorra in the Pyrenees for the first time. Read the full story of her Andorran Adventure.
28th March 2023
Cairngorm Gears Up for The BRITS
Preparations are well under way at the UK’s biggest ski area for the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships which take place this weekend. The BRITS is returning to its roots and our Scotland reporter, Rod Frazer, has been checking out progress.
25th March 2023
An Andorran Adventure: Part Two
PlanetSKI’s Chief Reporter is plugging a big gap in her ski knowledge, she’s finally in Andorra. Part two of An Andorran Adventure.
22nd March 2023
An Andorran Adventure
PlanetSKI’s Chief Reporter is finally plugging a big gap in her ski knowledge. She’s skiing in Andorra in the Pyrenees for the first time. Part one.
19th March 2023
A Week in Paradiski
At PlanetSKI we’re often flitting between resorts, never spending more than a few days in one area before moving on. For a change, we’ve spent a whole week hitting the slopes of the vast Paradiski in the French Alps. We could hardly have chosen a better time to be there.
4th March 2023
World Championships Silver for GB Skier Zoe Atkin
The 20-year-old X Games Champion was just pipped to the top spot, but took silver in the ski halfpipe final. It was the only medal for GB on the final day of the Freestyle World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia and adds to the two snowboard gold medals earlier this week.
2nd March 2023
World Championships Gold for GB Snowboard Cross Team
Snowboarders Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale are Great Britain’s latest World Champions. It’s the second gold for GB at the Freestyle World Championships in Georgia.
1st March 2023
PlanetSKI Takes the 45-Minute Challenge
PlanetSKI’s Tim Clark has taken on the challenge of getting from the French resort of La Rosiere to La Thuile in Italy on a snowboard in 45 minutes. Can it be done?
1st March 2023
UK Children on Ski Trip Stranded in US After Passports are Destroyed
The pupils from a school in Walsall in the West Midlands were on a ski trip to New Hampshire but could not return home as planned at the weekend after a hotel apparently shredded their passports by mistake.
1st March 2023
March Ski News in Brief – Live and Updated
– Ischgl Kicks Off ‘Spring Blanc’ with George Ezra
– 2,000 Women Take Switzerland to Court Over Climate Change
– Massive Avalanche near Utah Ski Resort on Video
– FIS to Ban Fluor Wax Next Season
– More than a third of UK flights were delayed last year … UPDATED
28th February 2023
Spring Skiing & Easter in Tirol
Most ski areas in the Austrian Tirol are open until Easter and beyond. Five of them are glacier resorts just an hour from Innsbruck.
28th February 2023
Scotland’s Snowsports Festival Off Due to Lack of Snow
The UK’s only on-snow ski and snowboard festival, The Mighty Coe, has been cancelled. There’s not enough snow on the mountain at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands.
28th February 2023
PlanetSKI Snow Report
A storm has begun in the NW Alps, but the temperature is set to rise. Will it be rain or snow? UPDATED
27th February 2023
GB Snowboarder Mia Brookes is World Champion
The 16-year-old has taken the snowboard slopestyle title in her first senior World Championships. And she’s made sporting history twice over in the process.
23rd February 2023
IOC Calls for Peace to Mark Anniversary of Ukraine Invasion
The International Olympic Committee has issued a statement marking a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. It condemns the ‘brutal warfare, human suffering, killing and destruction’.
22nd February 2023
UK Ski Tour Operators Working to Turn Young Lives Around
Inghams and Esprit have joined with the charity, Snow Camp, and GB Olympic snowboarder, Jamie Nicholls, to give youngsters from inner cities opportunities in snowsports.
21st February 2023
British Skiers & Snowboarders Make Sporting History
Every single ski and snowboard discipline under the GB Snowsport banner has now delivered a World Cup, World Championships or X Games podium this season. And it’s not over yet.
21st February 2023
16 Britons Injured in Alps Crash
Six children are among those hurt in a collision between a minibus and a four-wheel drive vehicle near Albertville in France. Two adults are in a serious condition.
20th February 2023
Great Austrian Resorts for Spring Skiing
They’re ski areas with a long season, kicking off early and finishing in April or even May. Check out some great choices for your spring trip to the mountains.
20th February 2023
Human Remains Found in Swiss Alps are British Man who Vanished Almost 50 Years Ago
The bones were uncovered on a glacier in the Val de Bagnes in the autumn. They have now been formally identified as those of a 32-year-old man who disappeared in the area in 1974.
14th February 2023
Black Skiers Celebrate 50 Years of ‘Soul on Snow’
More than 2,000 people have gathered in Vail, Colorado, to mark a half-century of the National Brotherhood of Skiers, an organisation created by black ski and snowboard enthusiasts.
14th February 2023
Best Value Food & Drink in Les3Vallées
It’s not a secret that eating and drinking out in the vast Three Valleys ski area in France can be an expensive pastime. With that in mind – and with the busy February holiday period in full swing – our friends at Maison Sport give us their tips for the best value spots. NEW
9th February 2023
Sweden May Bid for 2030 Winter Olympics
The Swedish Olympic and Paralympic Committees are considering bidding to host the Winter Games in 2030. The IOC has welcomed the interest as other cities fall away.
9th February 2023
What to do in Morzine Besides Snowsports
There are 600km of pistes to enjoy in the Portes du Soleil but if you want a break from the slopes – or are travelling with those less keen than you are on snowsports – what else is there to do?
8th February 2023
Big Après Ski Line-up for The Mighty Coe
Scotland’s ski and snowboard festival has announced a big programme of evening entertainment for the event which takes place over three days at Glencoe next month.
8th February 2023
International Ski Patrol Day
It’s being celebrated for a second year and took place on Friday, 10th February. The aim is to recognise the extraordinary work of ski patrollers without whom we could not enjoy our skiing and snowboarding each winter.
8th February 2023
Tirol’s Local Secrets
If you’re off to the Tirol this season, we have some local secrets to let you in on. Even if you’re heading to the Austrian region’s most famous resorts, we’re pretty sure there will be things you don’t know. Let the locals tell you more.
7th February 2023
Avoriaz: Love it or Hate it?
It’s one of those places that provokes strong feelings. If you’re a fan of traditional mountain ski villages, then this 1960s purpose-built resort in the French Alps is possibly not for you. But it has a lot going for it and we rather like it.
2nd February 2023
40 Hours in Vaujany
PlanetSKI packed a lot into a flying visit to the unknown – to us – ski village of Vaujany in the Isère region of the French Alps. Downhill skiing, a ski tour, a snowshoe trek to watch the sun go down and more.
26th January 2023
X Games Gold for GB’s Zoe Atkin + 2 Bronze Medals for Kirsty Muir
The 20-year-old has claimed one of the biggest prizes in freestyle snowsports, a gold medal at the X Games, Aspen in Colorado. Less than 24 hours later, the British teenager Kirsty Muir won her second bronze medal of these X Games.
24th January 2023
Shiffrin Breaks Vonn’s Record for World Cup Wins
The 27-year-old American superstar, Mikaela Shiffrin, has done it! She’s broken Lindsey Vonn’s record and now has more World Cup victories than any other woman. She clocked up number 83 in the giant slalom at Kronplatz in Italy on Tuesday and made it 84 on Wednesday.
24th January 2023
Ryding 12th in Schladming
Dave Ryding has been back in action, just two days after winning silver at Kitzbühel on Sunday. It’s the Schladming night slalom – one of the most exciting events of the year. UPDATED
24th January 2023
Good Conditions Continue in the Alps
Cold temperatures and more snowfall in the Alps are turning January into a great month for skiing and snowboarding. There’s also snow in the Pyrenees, while parts of North America and Scandinavia are continuing to deliver the goods. UPDATED
24th January 2023
How Green is Your Ski Trip?
More and more of us want to do our bit to help the environment, but a trip to the mountains for snowsports is far from ‘green’. Morzine in France, however, claims to be a resort with a conscience, and is keen to promote itself as an eco-friendly ski town. We’re there to find out more.
22nd January 2023
Ryding & Brookes Take Silver for GB at Kitzbühel & Laax
Dave Ryding put in one of his trademark second run charges to burst onto the podium in Kitzbühel. He was close to winning the world’s biggest slalom race for a second consecutive year but was pipped by Switzerland’s Daniel Yule. Earlier the young GB snowboarder Mia Brookes finished in a brilliant second place in the Laax slopestyle for her first World Cup podium.
21st January 2023
Lindsey Vonn Races the Hahnenkamm – at Night
The legendary retired ski racer, Lindsey Vonn, has put her skis back on to become the first woman to ski the infamous Kitzbühel downhill course – and the first to dare to take on the Streif at night.
20th January 2023
Ryding Returns to Scene of World Cup Triumph
GB’s Dave Ryding is preparing to race at Kitzbühel, one year on from his historic victory. Can ‘The Rocket’ find the form to tame the slalom course on the infamous Hahnenkamm mountain and win for a second time? UPDATED
18th January 2023
Snow in the Alps in Pictures
We can never have too many photos of snow, especially when it’s been falling in such huge quantities in the Alps over the past 48 hours or so. PlanetSKI has spent a morning off the slopes and enjoying the scenery in Morzine in France for this photo gallery.
16th January 2023
PlanetSKI is in Morzine as Heavy Snow Finally Falls
Morzine was one of those resorts that had a torrid time of it when rain washed away much snow over the New Year holiday period. Now it is chucking it down. We look at the fresh snow and the impact of the earlier lack of snow.
14th January 2023
A Cancer Survivor’s Ski Story
When Catherine Bellsham-Revell was diagnosed with cancer, she reassessed her life. It led to her donning some race gear and joining the Ladies’ Ski Club which celebrates its 100th birthday on 23rd January. This is Catherine’s story.
10th January 2023
Antarctica Ski World Record Attempt Abandoned
The British polar endurance athlete Wendy Searle has been forced to end her challenge to become the fastest woman to ski solo and unsupported from the Antarctic coast to the Geographic South Pole. NEW
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Urs Lehmann Resigns as CEO of FIS Ahead of Bitter Presidential Election
There has been a move by some of the major ski nations to oust the current FIS President Johan Eliasch.
Now Lehmann has stepped down after reported disagreements with Eliasch.
Urs Lehmann Resigns as CEO of FIS Ahead of Bitter Presidential Election - PlanetSKI
There has been a move by some of the major ski nations to the oust the current President Johan Eliasch. Now ...
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