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From a super-chalet in Val d’Isère to the frozen fjords of Greenland, plus a resort with no cars — and one with no lifts
...than gore, and the sorcery, which takes a dark turn in the hands of Adrian Lester’s Earl of Poynton, comes with a side order of camp....
...But with Society of the Snow, based on Pablo Vierci’s 2008 book, Spanish director Bayona — whose previous work includes tsunami drama The Impossible — achieves a startling new level of vividness....
...The Italian ski area of Breuil-Cervinia has a disconnect between reliable snow and property values....
...Local realtor Brittanie Rockhill at Douglas Elliman describes Aspen as a “curated snow globe” with its designer boutiques, historic buildings and almost nothing exceeding 28ft in height, “keeping the view...
...We put our four rucksacks into a pile and began shovelling snow on to them. After an hour we had a huge, meringue-like mound that we tamped down with skis....
...But ski towns just a few kilometres away were suffering a dearth of snow as a result of climate change....
...Says Armani: “I converted a typical Engadin house into a winter retreat, Armani-style”....
...In the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana winter came early with a fortnight of cloudless cobalt skies above a fresh dump of snow — the best kind of “bluebird” days on the slopes, in US ski parlance....
...What benefit has Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (Wyoming, USA) experienced since investing “heavily” in snow-making?...
...In “Snow Scene in Argenteuil”, he evokes sensations of sharp cold air, muffled sounds, thick snow crunching underfoot, enveloping us in the atmosphere of a winter afternoon in a Paris suburb as the sun,...
...The resort can now supply snow to around a third of its trails....
...Despite the conditions, a foot of new snow makes for some great skiing as Lackner leads us to sheltered, leeward slopes....
...boosted the value of Niseko’s reliably consistent volume of high-quality powder snow....
...making welsh-cakes in the snow, and steals a fistful of snowflakes and currants and climbs back to bed to eat them cold and sweet under the warm, white clothes while his mother dances in the snow kitchen...
...A blanket of snow fills most of the canvas, with a dappling of cold, seafoam-green water in the background and a midnight-blue evening sky....
...“It will be a hedge against climate change,” says Jeff Hanle, Aspen Snowmass’s vice-president of communications, adding that Aspen has also been moving snow-making higher up the mountain....
...This article with suggested questions picked by a teacher is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Read our full range of geography picks here....
...It all began in the spring of 1959, when bassist and composer Charles Mingus entered Columbia Records’ 30th Street studio in New York and recorded a tribute to the great tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who...
...“The longer stretch of open water, the greater potential for lake effect snow,” he added....
...In the 1937 Disney film, which of Snow White’s seven dwarfs was voiced by Otis Harlan, born in 1865?...
...Over the weekend: The 2024 Sapporo Snow Festival begins on Sunday, which is also World Cancer Day....
...Much of Europe also experienced fewer snow days than usual, while the Alps experienced “exceptional glacier ice loss in 2023” due to heatwaves....
...“They were shooting in real snow, following a very strict diet, very far from their families and girlfriends, so they were able to experience a little bit of the hunger and cold and isolation.”...
...The main plot follows a disturbing mystery involving a group of scientists from a polar research centre who are found frozen under snow in a tableau mort of anguished faces and writhing bodies....
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