Event Previews & Reviews from Verbier

Spring is officially in the air, just don't forget your sunscreen!

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

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.

The Relentless Freeze Festival did exactly what it said on the tin and those not wearing their ski jackets could be found with teeth chattering, huddled around the vin chaud stand wrapping themselves in a fruity alcoholic blanket.

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.

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

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

Verbier hosts some of the best and biggest free events throughout the season and they will not disappoint this winter. After last year's record breaking snow levels, Verbier is opening fully on December 1st with hopes of a similar forecast.

As the best freeriders in the world gather in Revelstoke this weekend for the first stop on the all-new Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face, we were fortunate to be able to have a sit down with a free skiing legend, holder of the world record for the highest cliff jump and super nice guy - Fred Syversen.

Ever wondered what it's really like to compete on the Swatch Freeride World Tour? In this great video diary - 'Free riding the perfect line' -  American freeskier Oakley White talks us through what it is like to take part in such a huge international event.

James reports from the Verbier Ride 08, which proved to be an awesome event. This year the competition was a qualifier for the 'Orage European Open for Swatch', and with a gathering of International male and female athletes at the La Chaux Snowpark, this upped the stakes, and encouraged a lively and exciting competition. The level was extremely high, and so were the tricks!

The last video from Team GB as they prepare for Sochi.

Follow the training of our British Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.

Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.

Dom Harington is a Halfpipe Snowboarder from Leeds who has missed the last two Olympics due to injuries after winning the Europa Cup Halfpipe. Sochi is probably his last chance to be part of the Olympics and he's giving it everything he has.