Sentence examples for pistes from inspiring English sources

Briançon has 24km of pistes best suited to beginners and intermediates, but it is also part of the Serre Chevalier resort.

The entire Andy phenomenon is merely yet another indicator that the pistes of power will forever be a closed book to me, because I simply cannot get past the deeply held belief that anybody who is remotely impressed by Prince Andrew should very possibly not be allowed out without supervision, let alone be in charge of anything important.

Its well-groomed pistes suit beginners and intermediates, and a new eight-seater gondola has expanded the lift system.

Eat breakfast while watching the sun rise over the empty pistes – then ski down before the crowds arrive.

Though output in the north has grown more slowly than elsewhere, its cities have beautified themselves: boules pistes and public sculpture liven up formerly deserted bits of Leeds; the seafront at Hull boasts a futuristic new aquarium.

JUST as the summer has at last deigned to visit its balmy charms on London, an annual ritual is reminding those with a penchant for snow-clad pistes that winter in the northern hemisphere is afoot.

I can gently distort the landscape so that you can see the pistes behind".

With ski-in, ski-out access it's easy to get on to the 200km of pistes around Zermatt (20km of which are operational in summer).

Schumacher fell, striking his head on a rock, while skiing in deep snow between two official pistes at Meribel in the French Alps on Sunday morning.

"They were skiing on pistes, but in the moment that it (the accident) happened, it was not on the piste," she said on Tuesday.

Snowshoeing takes you to places that are otherwise hard to reach, and Serge led me into the woods that surround the pistes of Bois Méan.