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With summer in full swing, we look back at a weekend of firsts last summer in the Dolomites. E-biking in Val Gardena:

Funny who you meet cycling the London-Brighton: half the UK snowsports industry it seems, an Olympic winter athlete, oh, and an ex-England goalkeeper.

Tobogganing has been banned in some of Australia’s big resorts – is this favourite past its time or has health & safety gone too far?

PlanetSKI will shortly be heading to the mountains in the summer. We’re looking back at some of our adventures from last year.

PlanetSKI asked for a short interview & was offered much, much more. Catie Friend joins the 2018 Dallaglio Cycle Slam charity ride as it passes through Verbier.

Have you considered skiing during our summer and skipping down to the Southern Hemisphere? Here’s where, when and why you should…

The upmarket Swiss ski resort is not just for winter. There’s a lot to keep you busy and active in the hot season too.

With the huge snowfalls of last winter and a recent top up the glaciers are in their best summer conditions for years. PlanetSKI looks at the options.

Why don’t more skiers head to the mountains in the summer? It’s a question we ask ourselves each year and now more than ever.

PlanetSKI goes glacier skiing in the morning and rides the pedals in the afternoon. Summer in the Alps, we love it!

We’ve done many a winter road trip in Canada hitting the ski resorts … now it’s the turn of summer.

We’ve done many a winter road trip in Canada hitting the ski resorts … now it’s the turn of summer.

PlanetSKI has been in Verbier in the summer months to test out the Swiss resort’s marketing slogan, Pure Energy. True or false?

Profit rise for largest lift company in the world, GB first to visit Beijing 2022, legal row looms over Ikon name + body of missing snowboarder recovered. NEW & UPDATED

Our editor is staying in the Dragon Lodge in Tignes as the season ends. There’s blue sky & powder snow with just a handful of days left…

PlanetSKI’s chief reporter ended her season ski touring on a Ski Club GB Freshtracks holiday. Here’s her round-up of what turned out to be a true adventure.

An amazing season, a last chance to get a piece of it + a mission to make it as easy going as skiing can be. PlanetSKI is in Val Thorens.

Sheer terror and some more humiliation awaits PlanetSKI’s chief reporter on the final two days of her spring ski touring trip to the French Alps.

The snow has been incredible, the sun is shining and there’s just a week or so left to ski Winter17/18. PlanetSKI is out doing it, for the last time, easy & cheap.

PlanetSKI hits some of the Tirol’s finest resorts from the centre of its capital city. What’s a city & ski break like? See our round-up of the trip.

PlanetSKI’s chief reporter takes on the tricky kick turn and the blazing spring sunshine as she continues her touring trip with the Ski Club of Great Britain.

It’s time to hang up the skis and put on the walking shoes. Our city and ski trip continues to hit the tourist sites of Innsbruck. NEW & UPDATED

PlanetSKI’s Chief Reporter ends her season by ski touring on her first Ski Club GB Freshtracks holiday. So, how did she get on?

It’s time to hang up the skis and put on the walking shoes. Our city and ski trip hits the tourist sites of Innsbruck. Eventually. UPDATED

We love cities & we love ski resorts. Where do they come together in perfect harmony? Innsbruck in the Tirol. PlanetSKI is in town & on the slopes.

So, there was our editor walking through the centre of Innsbruck to take his skis back to the hire shop and this happened…

IOC claims credit for Korean talks, Crystal Ski launches 2018/19 holiday guide + 10 winter deaths in Scottish mountains. NEW & UPDATED

Our correspondent Alf Alderson is a Les Arcs ‘ambassador’. Sadly his latest communique does not make happy reading.