Large ski areas and high altitudes are at the top of skiers’ wish lists, and France delivers ... spread over three main valleys containing resorts of different characters.

Alpe du Grand Serre, a French ski resort, has closed permanently ahead of the 2024-2025 ski season as fellow European destinations tangle with ongoing climate change impacts. The Guardian reports that ...

“You look like you’re sat on the toilet,” the begoggled ski instructor says to one ... Le Refuge — a lamp-lit brasserie on the resort’s main thoroughfare — is so bedecked with wood ...

Some French resorts see this as a way of renewing their clientele, at a time when the number of visitors to all ski areas has been falling over the last 15 years. Furthermore, while skiing has ...

It remains one of the most popular ski resorts in France, with visitors attracted ... limited Le Pass also covers the resort’s fourth main area, Les Houches, and the Aiguille du Midi lift ...

In fall 2024, Alpe du Grand Serre, another French ski resort, announced that it would close, noting that it didn’t have enough funds to become a year-round destination. Skilift Schratten Flühli, a ...

Twelve resorts — eight in France and four in Switzerland ... For a full-day adventure, ski all the way to Sestriere, one of the main resorts of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.

Paris (CNN) — A large French alpine ski resort faced with declining snowfalls is to close after it failed to find funds to turn its pistes into year-round attractions. The Alpe du Grand Serre ...