Event Previews & Reviews from Verbier

With the whole of Verbier shut down in May (well most of it) its time to recharge the batteries and look forward to the summer events.

Highlights from the final day of the Freeride World tour 2011, which took place on the epic Bec des Rosses in Verbier. Each year the Freeride World Tour finishes in Verbier. If you can make it you can watch the planets best skiers and snowboarders in action.

The Grand Concours Hippique is held every August in Verbier. Since 1997 this regional and national competition has drawn riders from all over Switzerland and in some cases the world, to the Val des Bagnes for a week of show jumping.

The ski lifts are preparing to open and the Christmas holidays are on the horizon.

Each year Verbier welcomes stars from the alpine skiing world to this unique event, which pits members of the public against some of the best skiers from the competition circuit.

Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders. 

Episode four of One Team to Sochi is out and it's all about the young lad from Bradford; Jamie Nicholls.

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.

Billy Morgan is one of the Britian's best chances of a Freestyle snowboarding medal at the Sochi Olympics.

Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.

February was dominated by the Alpine Skiing World Championships, held every second year, which kicked off in St Moritz on 6th February. Over 13 days, 589 athletes from 76 countries competed in eleven competitions in front of 165,000 spectators.

Magical March is here. Enjoy long, warm days in the sunshine.