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Winter sports

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Obituary
    Sylvain Saudan, ‘skier of the impossible’, 1936-2024

    The Swiss father of extreme skiing pioneered descents from the Alps to the Himalayas — and became the sport’s first star

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Travel
    An off-piste ski adventure — in June

    A series of late storms have drawn obsessive skiers back to the Alps

  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Travel
    Postcard from Switzerland: how I survived an avalanche

    The advice — try to ‘swim’, create a breathing space with your hands — is not so easy to follow when you’re tumbling in a wave of freezing snow

    Illustration of four men caught in an avalanche with a swallow flying above them
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    Travel
    The perfect Austrian ski resort — and why it’s fighting for survival

    With its picture-postcard setting and plentiful high-altitude snow, Heiligenblut should be thriving — but charm only goes so far in the modern economics of skiing

  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    Ski industry navigates new terrain to fend off threat of climate change

    Mountain resorts are diversifying as the top US and Europe trails become unusable even in peak season

    Ski lift in operation as crowds flock to Sierra at Tahoe Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe in California
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Travel
    All alone in the world’s biggest ski resort

    La Plagne in France is known as a giant, beginner-friendly ‘ski factory’ — but a new lift could change perceptions

  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    Residential
    Five of the world’s best ski chalets for sale

    Prime property for hitting the slopes from Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn to Hokkaidō and Whistler

  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    Personal Finance
    Italy overtakes Bulgaria for best-value ski trips

    Inflation raises costs in many European resorts, survey finds

    A skier in the Italian Alps
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    European prime property
    Will a US-style upgrade draw homebuyers to Crans-Montana?

    Vail’s recent majority-stake acquisition of the Swiss ski resort will replace ageing infrastructure and improve snow-making

  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Travel
    Switzerland’s wildest ski tour

    Far from the crowded pistes, the Urner Haute Route leads skiers through hidden valleys and high passes from Andermatt to Engelberg

    A skier speeding down a steep snowy mountainside
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Vail Resorts Inc
    Vail to buy Switzerland’s Crans-Montana ski resort in $136mn deal

    Colorado-based group’s purchase is its latest in Europe

    Crans-Montana ski slope
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    FT Series
    House & Home Ski Property Special

    Take a leap into our seasonal special issue with the latest ski resilience rankings of prime resorts, a look back at a master of Alpine Modernism, plus chalet style from chic fireplaces to building your own sauna

    Skiers on the slope looking down at a village
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Property Special
    The mysterious Carlo Mollino: stunt pilot, Surrealist, Alpine architect

    The cultish designer was a pioneer of mountain Modernism

  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Property Special
    Homebuyers discover an alternative Alps

    Ski villages south of Grenoble promise plentiful snow, lots of sunshine and lower prices than the northern resorts

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Pink Snow 2023: a winter sports special

    From a super-chalet in Val d’Isère to the frozen fjords of Greenland, plus a resort with no cars — and one with no lifts

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    FT MagazinePink Snow 2023: a winter sports special
    Gear guide: what to buy skiers this winter

    A twist-to-tighten ski boot, a superior avalanche transceiver — and some very cosy slippers

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    FT MagazinePink Snow 2023: a winter sports special
    Avoriaz: a ski city in the sky

    Almost 60 years since its creation, the car-free French resort still feels like a pioneer

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    FT MagazinePink Snow 2023: a winter sports special
    25 ski trips to book now

    Boutique hotels, family favourites and off-piste adventures for the coming winter

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    FT MagazinePink Snow 2023: a winter sports special
    Pink Snow: news from the slopes

    The world’s first ‘on-demand’ ski lift; Vail’s bid to reinvent rental shops; Inghams’ rail trips to the Alps; new terrain in the US

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    FT MagazinePink Snow 2023: a winter sports special
    Europe’s first ‘lift free’ ski resort

    In northern Italy, Homeland aims to offer an alternative, more sustainable ski experience — for those prepared to walk

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special
    Amanda Wakeley swaps fashion for fleeces to face skiing’s final frontier

    The designer takes the polar plunge in Antarctica

    A gentoo penguin colony in Antarctica
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    FT MagazineJoshua Chaffin
    Our ski trip made me question my life choices

    There’s a new class dividing line in the US: those who can afford a trip to the mountains out west — and those who can’t

  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    Travel
    Inside Club Med’s vast new ‘ski factory’

    It started out as a tented camp in Mallorca with utopian ideals and no running water. But 73 years on, and now with Chinese owners, the French brand is moving upmarket and embarking on an Alpine building spree

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    Travel
    A new frontier for adventure-seeking skiers

    In the medieval mountain town of Mestia, a team of local and Canadian guides is opening up a new frontier for adventure-seeking skiers

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Prime property
    Hot property: five homes for sale in the Swiss Alps

    From a Verbier chalet with views of Mont Blanc to a penthouse in the year-round resort of Gstaad

    Swiss chalet
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