Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB Park & Pipe Team
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
Read reviews of the best Val d'Isere events
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.
La Folie Douce is one of the liveliest paces to head on the mountain for apres ski, with cabaret dancers, musicians and magnums of champagne being delivered to thirsty party-goers by a mini cable car.
The London Freeze is the ski and snowboard event that brings together international live music acts and some of the world's best riders. The two day festival is the last weekend in October and in 2011 we caught up with X-Games medalist James Wooods for a chat about his Olympic hopes.
The International 4x4 Salon is back in Val d’Isere.Situated in the large parking area in La Daille, the show also offers 4x4 enthusiasts the chance to take a ride around the off road tracks on the top of the mountain.
The Relentless Freeze Festival did exactly what it said on the tin and those not wearing their ski jackets could be found with teeth chattering, huddled around the vin chaud stand wrapping themselves in a fruity alcoholic blanket.
Well, it’s been one heck of a week. We’ve had sun, we’ve had snow, and we’ve had one amazing event to take our minds off of our desolate bank accounts, the fat tyre forming around out waists, and of course, the fact that we’re slacking off at work, again.
The London Ski and Snowboard show is for many the first event of the winter. Pick up the latest kit, catch up with friends and enjoy the party. It'll be a couple of months before you can do it for real.
Day two of X-Games Europe in Tignes dawned with clear skies and beautiful sunshine. Everything was set for a great day.
The White Battle was a local organised and run competition. Twelve teams made up of a skier, snowboarder and rookie went head to head in a knock-out comp. Each team had to pull the best tricks they could off the kicker at the bottom of the Face to go through to the next round.
Episode four of One Team to Sochi is out and it's all about the young lad from Bradford; Jamie Nicholls.
Patagonia are world renowned for producing some of the best outdoor sports clothing and equipment on the market, and now they have opened a store right here in Val d’Isere!
Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders.
The last video from Team GB as they prepare for Sochi.
Magical March is here. Enjoy some great skiing and lunches in the sunshine.
Professional Skiers & Snowboarders put their bodies through alot. This episode looks at the injuries Freestyle Team GB have suffered and the road to recovery and the Olympics.
The biggest of big air has come and gone in Val d’Isere bringing yet another week of incredible tricks and even more audacious partying.
As the best freeriders in the world gather in Revelstoke this weekend for the first stop on the all-new Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face, we were fortunate to be able to have a sit down with a free skiing legend, holder of the world record for the highest cliff jump and super nice guy - Fred Syversen.