Top 10 beginners' ski resorts
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Don't forget that there are various considerations to take into account before you book your first ski holiday – hire skis and boots in the resort so you can change them if they don't suit, and maybe consider hiring ski clothing too rather than splurging on kit you may never use again. Check out skitogshire.co.uk for a range of options.
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Date Published: November 20, 2007
Cross-country skiing
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Thrill rating 4/10
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Date Published: September 29, 2007
Heavenly descents
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If you can ski St Anton, an old hand tells me just before I fly out, you can ski anywhere.
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Date Published: November 29, 2005
Slippery slope
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Misadventures of the first-time skier
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Date Published: December 08, 2005
The impatient skier's guide
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There are a host of opportunities to get the season under way early.
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Date Published: October 24, 2005
Ski: black runs
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The biggest, baddest and most thrilling.
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Date Published: October 11, 2005
Skinning up
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A thousand feet below us lay our accommodation for the night - an isolated mountain refuge set in deep snow beside two small frozen lakes. From the steep ridge on which we balanced, we watched the last rays of the sun bathing the Mont Blanc range in golden light, while immediately south were the jagged towers and rock faces of 3,051m Aiguille de Fruit.
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Date Published: February 06, 2006
