Focus On
Articles on Snows trips around the world. Trip reports and resort reviews from our own first hand experience, and some general features on off the slope activities and more.
![les houches chamonix](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/les-houches-chamonix.webp)
If the ski gods live in the Alps, surely Chamonix is where you’ll find their Mt Olympus.
Europe’s most spectacular peaks soar to left and right but on a telemarking tour out of Cervinia, Italy, it’s not the...
![a night in an igloo](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/a-night-in-an-igloo.webp)
can you enjoy a holiday in a ski resort without even skiing or snowboarding? Daniel Elkan and Vanessa Squire head to...
![icefields highway](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/icefields-highway.webp)
Roger Fulton took a scenic road trip along the Icefields Parkway in Alberta to discover why skiing in the national...
![ski safari article image2](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/ski-safari-article-image2.webp)
Ever crunched the miles traveling from town to town, valley to valley just for the pleasure of exploring? Patrick...
![hochfugen at night](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/hochfugen-at-night.webp)
A purpose-built ski resort with a few large hotels, a huge car park, some ski shops and not much else other than a...
![nendaz skier copyright mathieu blache](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/nendaz-skier-copyright-mathieu-blache.webp)
The 4 Vallées is the biggest ski area in Switzerland, offering more than 400km of ski runs, guaranteed snowfall and...
![engelberg snow bridge](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/engelberg-snow-bridge.webp)
A short transfer from Zurich airport puts the hardcore Swiss off-piste resort of Engelberg within reach. It claims to...
![2560 general ski shot les 3 vallees meribel](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/2560-general-ski-shot-les-3-vallees-meribel.webp)
Alf Alderson tries not to get lost in the mighty Three Valleys on a season-long jaunt to the largest ski area in the...
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Åre (pronounced Oar-er) is Northern Europe’s biggest and most diverse ski resort. Along with Aspen, St Moritz, Verbier...
It’s one of skiing’s eternal clichés that you have to ‘do’ the posh resort experience and famously tough descents of...
Not, in fact, the happy-clapping climax of some bizarre thigh-slapping ritual, but Rob Freeman’s pick – painstakingly...
Chile is home to the finest slopes in the Southern Hemisphere... probably. Dave Rice explains why
As UK Ambassador for Vail Resorts, Martin Bell generally finds himself showing folks around Vail, Beaver Creek,...