The Olympic bobsleigh track at La Plagne in the French Alps has our writer shaken, stirred and terrified. But at least he now knows how Blue Peter's John Noakes felt back in the day…
January 2004
Take me to paradise on a cable car built for two hundred
A spectacular new cable car link between La Plagne and Les Arcs has created a huge new ski area called Paradiski. Jane Knight found that big really is beautiful.
December 2003
La grande Plagne
The new cable car linking La Plagne and Les Arcs has created one of the biggest ski networks in the world. Roger Bray is one of the first passengers.
February 2003
Child's play
It just gets better
January 2003
'This is our Everest'
Having managed a blue run with the aid of his instructor, Gwyn Topham decides to go it alone, which turns out to be an emotional ordeal.
Pole positions
Despite successfully skiing home at the end of the day, Gwyn Topham feels bereft without his chalet hosts and is forced out into the terrifying world of après-ski.
Skiing in a snowfall? Piece of cake...
Skiing is for show-offs
Snow, sweat and fear
March 2002
Please don't make me ski, mummy...
The big attraction of Club Med's La Plagne resort for Tracy McVeigh was that its children's club would give her the freedom to get on the slopes. But her four-year-old son had other ideas...
