Alpine Answers Ski Blog

Before the age of 30, I wasn’t very interested in the best mountain dining in the Alps – as far as I was concerned the mountains were for skiing on and lunches were for wimps. W

As I creep closer to the big 50, I find myself more attracted to the smaller, lesser known ski resorts. Is this because I want to avoid the crowds and hassle associated with the la

There’s something about skiing and children that, in practice, fits so well and yet, theoretically, doesn’t fit all at. After all it flies in the face of all things that would norm

It’s a bluebird day, 60cm of fresh powder has fallen, what resort will not be tracked out in the first half an hour of the lifts opening? Powder skiing in Whistler – it’s the on

Remember the scene in The World Is Not Enough (1999), where the rather dashing Pierce Brosnan is showing some serious ski skills (okay so it might not actually be him, but that

Most resorts can look like this photograph some of the time. But how many of them actually look like that from November through to May? Very few… For many of us Brits, the thoug

Wow, what a gem of a resort Engelberg is. Having never been before but having heard so much I was intrigued. I was also a little sceptical as Simon in the office dislocated his sho

Back in December 2011, I was fortunate enough to travel to Grimentz, in the Val d’Anniviers region, in order to take a look at a couple of the chalets that we feature on our web