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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....
...Known as Johnny Bute (or Johnny Dumfries, when he was a Formula One racing driver and teammate of Ayrton Senna), he inherited from his father in 1993 and was passionate about the island on which he’d grown...
...There’d be ska, Turkish and Greek folk music in the neighbourhood, and everybody in the same piss-pot of poverty.” He contracted meningitis at seven and was in and out of comas for nearly a year....
...He says that, if he’d taken Sherborne’s advice, “there’d still be a News of the World on Sunday and no hacking claims.” “It’s not true!” says my guest, smiling....
...The transition from city to country was vertiginous, which made my journey vivid and peculiar: there’d been recent snow, which now slid thudding from the eaves of painted barns set at intervals between bare...
...You’d be hard pressed to find music written in the 21st century, not to mention by women, people of colour.” Nevertheless, Gandelsman is certain there is an appetite for new music....
...I’d bring them back when there’s snow.” Across the US and Europe, climate change is forcing the ski industry to adapt....
...We spent every weekend in blue February snowmobiling through the snow-covered valleys in search of it....
...“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.”...
...“Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, a song spawned from self-loathing and addiction, is haunting, but in Johnny Cash’s version, his advanced years and ill health really hit you in the feels....
...I have so many style icons: Gianni Agnelli, Michael Chow, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp… but Agnelli came to my mind first. He was so elegant but so original....
...It looks like yellow snow, or what’s fashionably termed a “drift” of parmesan, but there’s no sulphurous egginess....
...Below were 500 metres of powder that, if it stayed stuck to the mountain, would provide a descent we’d remember for years....
...This downbeat ending is lifted by one of Bourne’s staged curtain calls and an ah-inducing fall of snow in the auditorium....
...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....
...“Once I’d got rid of my own personal tastes, it began to work very well,” he said of his booking policy at the Mean Fiddler....
...I drank my beer in the Dromonts bar under walls covered with images of Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday, Brigitte Bardot and more....
...I’m glad to be here in March, when tourism is slower, even if there’s a heightened risk of storms and snow....
...If you remember in 2018-ish, there were a lot of revelations that were really horrifying, you know, where people had been, you know, forcing themselves on employees or they’d been having, you know, non-consensual...
...If the ice and snow were to peter out or the rock become blank, retreat would be extremely challenging....
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