The US traveller’s desire to escape the cold is the Aussie traveller’s gain,with the launch of a new Delta Air Lines service.
It’s been a slow start to this year’s ski season in Victoria – and climate change poses an ongoing threat – but business on the slopes is booming.
An investigation into how a chair fell from a cable at Thredbo has revealed what went wrong and raised concerns about the safety of lifts at all Australian snow resorts.
The ski season opens this long weekend with minimal snowfall and bookings down as cost-of-living pressures bite.
Loss of snow cover is further proof,if any were needed,that our climate is changing – and not for the better.
If global emissions remain high,skiing and snowboarding will disappear in Australia by 2080 at all but two resorts. If emissions are rapidly reduced,snow sports will remain strong throughout the Australian Alps.
A chance encounter on a bus landed an octogenarian with a prized parcel of land near Thredbo in a messy court fight with a younger couple.
Australia’s most remote ski resort is scrambling to come up with a plan to open to the public before the season starts and roads close for the winter.
British Columbia (BC) is home to some of the world’s best ski resorts among some of the world’s snowiest mountain ranges,and nowhere epitomises Canada’s laid-back ski culture more.
Ski instructor Charlie Evans specialises in providing adaptive lessons,helping all kinds of differently abled guests experience snow sports.
The 25-year-old from Barwon Heads has won 13 of 15 world cup competitions she’s entered this season – the greatest season ever by a moguls skier.