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Despite its exceptionally beautiful, bowl-like setting beneath Mont Blanc and its large ski area (83 lifts; 325km of pistes), it remains very French.
The linked area, named Ski Juwel, above, will have 47 lifts and 90 miles of pistes; it won't be a major wintersport hub, but it will give two attractive Tyrol destinations a decent shared domain.
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As an example of going gloriously off-piste, it takes some beating.
The next morning, my last in Cervinia, I persuaded Perron to head towards the slow-skiing piste; it was only when we got to the top of a (for me) terrifyingly steep red run that I realised why he had been so reluctant to take me there before.
Foo Fighter Dave Grohl called them "the best opening band we've ever had", while performances on America's Got Talent and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, alongside Shawn Mendes and Rita Ora, have seen their second album, Young & Dangerous, chalk up 20m streams a month, despite being so culturally off-piste it should come with snow boots.
Nevertheless, the theory espoused by Fox News reporter Pete Hegseth as to why the North Korean leader wanted to agree to the meeting in the first place is so off piste, it would be churlish not to share.
There are smart organisers (St Moritz dug tunnels for leisure skiers to traverse the race pistes when it hosted the World Championships in 2003) and not-so-smart (Sestriere restricted a key gondola link to Olympic personnel during the 2006 Turin games); given Whistler's excellent management, it will probably be in the former category.
At a stroke, the whole ski area has been expanded to more than 300km of pistes, making it one of the biggest in Europe.
From the piste map it looks as if it's impossible to get back to the slopes from here without a long walk uphill.
Their solution was to go off-piste when it came to signing up a curator.
As a founder of a business, the creative mind is always going off piste and it's easy to get involved in too many projects.
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