The light was beginning to fade as we reached the Pointe Collet Blanc. We’d traversed in through a series of increasingly untracked bowls from a lift 500m above Val Thorens and just a few minutes ...

Nick Trend has great ideas for a perfect day's skiing at Val Thorens in France The highest resort in the Alps, Val Thorens is used to excellent snow. But this year -- though it arrived later than ...

Val Thorens is located in the French region of Savoia and forms part of the famous ski resort "Trois Vallees". With more than 600km of pistes, this is hailed as the biggest ski resorts in the world ...

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