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<description>Since 2004, Les Deux Alpes has played host to the Mondial VTT – a mega mountain biking event where f...</description>
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<description>Les 2 Alpes has kicked off the 2008 summer season to a fine start, with glacier skiing that opened i...</description>
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<description>As of the 1st July 2008, it will become law in France that motorised vehicles must carry a warning t...</description>
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<description>Get out your hiking boots, dust off your mountain bike and slap on the sun cream – summer is officia...</description>
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<description>This winter the ski industry has been cursing the British media for painting such a bleak, one dimen...</description>
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<description>Verbier local and British freeskier Warren Smith has been set a new challenge – this time on wheels...</description>
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<description>A new study in to ski injuries by Professor Peter Cummings of the University of Washington has concl...</description>
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<description>Following trials in the US at CopperBeech Mountain resort, French ski resorts are looking into inves...</description>
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<description>The Refuge de l’Aigle in La Grave has become the subject of a battle between the Club d’Alpin Franca...</description>
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<description>Was it Batman that used to say “Holy Moly”?  Well even if it wasn’t that’s the only way to describe...</description>
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<description>After much research, an Albertville-based company has discovered a way of recycling used ski gear....</description>
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<description>The lift office in Les Deux Alpes is offering 20% off the price of a day pass, every weekend during...</description>
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<description>Arkema and Scarpa’s research and development teams have been working closely together to design and...</description>
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<description>With the headline tragic events in Chamonix valley this weekend, some are starting to ask questions....</description>
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<description>Following the strike last week by lift workers in Courchevel which paralysed the ski resort, seasonn...</description>
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<description>Realli-Ski, a small team of engineers in rural Kent who manufacture an innovative ski and snowboard...</description>
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<description>Snow kiting is a sport that is growing in popularity across the Alps, but as with all winter sports,...</description>
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<description>Despite the Men’s Downhill race being cancelled on Saturday 2nd Feb, the weather turned for the bett...</description>
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<description>The law forbidding smoking in public places in France has now been extended to bars, cafes, restaura...</description>
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<description>Today (Sat 20th Dec) saw the inauguration of a robotic simulator designed to take passengers on the...</description>
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<description>Life in the mountains isn’t always just about skiing and a good dose of apres-skiing; for those whos...</description>
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<description>Noooo we’re not being rude, we really are talking about dogs – avalanche dogs to be precise! For the...</description>
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<description>2006 Winter Olympic gold medallist Antoine Deneriaz, who lives in Morillon in the Grand Massif ski a...</description>
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<description>In the last 36 hours, resorts across the Alps have been deluged with the kind of snowfall that hasn’...</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>Last weekend was the fantastic Mondial du Snowboard event in Deux Alpes – the big kick off event of...</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>Starting tomorrow, the 18th Mondial du Snowboard freestyle competition kicks off in Les 2 Alpes.  Fo...</description>
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