Morning all, An unusual thing happened in the mountains this August: for the first time in around sixty years, not a single lift-served ski area in Europe was open. Zermatt, Saas-Fee and finally Passo Stelvio all suspended summer glacier skiing as heatwave after heatwave took its toll, and the national race teams packed up and flew to Chile and Argentina to find winter. The Alps have since cooled and a little snow has fallen up high but it's a striking marker of how the seaso

Our take on the best spots to ski and snowboard in the Espace Killey region. Val D'Isere and Tignes ski resorts.