Alf Alderson looks at the ins and outs – and cost of heliskiing.
Alf Alderson
Alf Alderson is an award-winning adventure sports and travel journalist and photographer based in Pembrokeshire and the Alps. He specialises in ski, surf and mountain sports journalism and his travel writing has appeared in a wide range of publications and websites including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Toronto Globe & Mail, South China Morning Post and Financial Times.
He is also the editor of ‘Church of the Open Sky’ an Apple Newsstand magazine featuring ‘eclectic adventure travel’ stories and great imagery, also available on Facebook here, and the author of various surfing, skiing and travel guidebooks.
Nice pants. Fabulous poles.
Following on from his jacket reviews, Alf takes a look at the latest offering from Leki and checks out some ski pants before he heads off for winter…
These boots were made for…
“My foot was bound up to the point of serious discomfort. It kind of reminded me of my first ski boots”. Alf Alderson heads to Ellis Brigham to finally get his ski boots fitted properly…
My own private Idaho
McCall, Idaho may just be the coolest ski town you never heard of…
On the UP
Alf Alderson looks at what takes us up, so we can come back down…
Going up in the world
Ski lifts – we never give them a second thought (unless you’re sitting on one that’s broken down in the middle of a blizzard). But without them, skiing and snowboarding as we know them simply wouldn’t exist…
LES ARCS’ PLACE IN SKI HISTORY
Alf gives us a brief tutorial on the history of architecture in French ski resorts, and checks out the new Edenarc complex in Arc 1800
The height of folie
Alf has a last blast in Tignes at the Francofolies music festival
