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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
...Val d’Isère may rank highly for reliable snow and property prices, but the correlation between prime property prices and resilience isn’t always so clear-cut....
...Nick said he’d built one before, though never “in anger”. We put our four rucksacks into a pile and began shovelling snow on to them....
...“If you own a piece of land and thought you’d build up to 15,000 sq ft on it one day, the opportunity has gone,” says Rockhill....
...I’d bring them back when there’s snow.” Across the US and Europe, climate change is forcing the ski industry to adapt....
...It looks like yellow snow, or what’s fashionably termed a “drift” of parmesan, but there’s no sulphurous egginess....
...“It’s high-altitude — there’s plenty of snow at Christmas and some hard [ski] runs. La Sarenne, the longest black run in Europe, is really nice.”...
...Below were 500 metres of powder that, if it stayed stuck to the mountain, would provide a descent we’d remember for years....
...Before dinner I’d visited the most striking of them, Aime 2000, opened in 1969 and known in France as the “Paquebot des Neiges”, the “Ocean liner of the snows”....
...Skiing is generally restricted to slopes covered in snow, and as SKWheel’s co-founder Romain Massebeuf notes with dismay, that snow is retreating....
...The movie won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year....
...If the ice and snow were to peter out or the rock become blank, retreat would be extremely challenging....
...If the visibility was less than ideal, the snow was fantastic....
...In my childhood, we used to have the Christmas cards lined up on the mantelpiece, inside the bookcase and, if there was an overspill, they’d leach on to the telephone table in the hall....
...Peter Doig: Reflections of the Century, opening next week at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, is an unmissable double show in which this century’s most innovative, exciting painter looks back, both on his own...
...I thought I’d be waiting for 30 minutes. I was in my room in five. Rooms The Park Hyatt’s rooms are spacious by European standards....
...There is always something extremely lovely about sinking into crisp white sheets, as pure as mountain snow, but for me this is strictly a hotel thing....
...“Jacques says there is no -ism in this architecture, no one style,” says Simon Cloutier, a protégé of Labro who now runs the Atelier d’Architecture d’Avoriaz....
...If Rob’s family is reading, I’d dearly love to see any footage you have of him faceplanting in the snow (as long as he doesn’t really hurt himself; mild physical damage and extreme embarrassment are OK)....
...I’d put JD Vance at the top of that list, only marginally ahead of Ramaswamy (who, as Ed has pointed out in previous Notes, has no saving graces)....
...“I was at the helm at 2am and was told to just aim for a mountain, then the snow came, and the mountain disappeared.”...
...His meticulous 1930s drawings of “rascard” houses in Italy’s Val d’Aosta brim with energy. He records the exact cuts and joints of the timbers, the piling up of structure and the log walls....
...region to the north of Honshu Island, promises to unveil a mythical world of snow monsters, ancient onsen and snow that’s famed for its sheer abundance and fluffiness....
...James’s response was to make a snow-hardy garden of 28 concrete structures, some to house his menagerie of an ocelot, a small monkey, parrots and boas....
...’s Feeling for Snow....
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