Freeride World Tour Finals 2016
This season's Freeride World Tour champions were crowned in Verbier this weekend in an exciting end to the season.
Read reviews of the best Verbier events
This season's Freeride World Tour champions were crowned in Verbier this weekend in an exciting end to the season.
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 Tour de France made it's first trip to Verbier and I went along to soak up the sun and enjoy the atmosphere.
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
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.
Only a week after the eponymous Freeride World Tour Final, on 7th April, the Verbier High Five by Carlsberg will come to town, a fantastic event aimed at getting more people involved with the competitive side of alpine skiing.
Verbier is synonymous around the world for its unbelievable freeride skiing, as well as the huge 4 Vallees ski area. However, it also has a well-earned reputation for being a mecca for party-goers and the hub of some unbelievable apres venues.
Live streaming of the FWT 2015 from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Watch the best freeride athletes in the world compete for the prize!
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.
Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.
The Freeride World Tour (FWT) is the biggest freeriding event on the planet and when it comes to the 'Xtreme Verbier' it's almost as if it gets bigger and This year 'Xtreme Verbier' celebrated its 20th year in resort and that made the start for a big party weekend!
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.
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.
Billy Morgan is one of the Britian's best chances of a Freestyle snowboarding medal at the Sochi Olympics.
The Farinet Lounge has opened its doors for the start of the 2016-17 season and as you can see it was a popular night, with plenty of cocktails and champagne flowing.
The London Ski and Snowboard show is for many the first event of the winter. Pick up the latest kit, catch up with friends and enjoy the party. It'll be a couple of months before you can do it for real.
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.