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“There’s plenty of snow on the pistes and plenty of good skiing,” is the resounding message from skiers, chalet owners, tour operators and resorts across the Alps, in response to headlines this week that entire mountains are closed due to lack of snow – sparking fears that half-term ski holidays could be ruined.
Our writer returns to the slopes after giving birth a second time – but it's not the celebratory affair she'd have hoped for
Austria’s lockdown has already hit early season breaks, and there are fears of another year of disappointment across the Alps
What it's like to have a ski resort to yourself CNN 2/3/2021 © Courtesy Sian Maher With no tourists, locals have the slopes to themselves. Skiers dream of empty slopes and pristine powder to plunder at leisure, but what price would you put on this notion of nirvana? The idea of your own ski resort has been close to reality for a lucky few in some mountain regions of Europe this winter because of Covid-19. Ski lifts are open, with assorted caveats, in many resorts in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Bulgaria, Norway and Sweden but closed in France, Italy, and Germany, where governments h...