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Skiing area Val d'Isère/Tignes
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| The skiing area Val d'Isère/Tignes
is a French skiing area with certain snow conditions. The skiing area
is covering from 3450 to 10550 meters altitude. Also a glacier
is located in this region. 133 pistes with 300 km length can be used.
The skiing area of this region is famous under the name
"Espace Killy". This name comes from the skiing areas of the two villages
Val d'Isère and Tignes and the triple Olympic winner of
Grenoble, Jean-Claude Killy. |
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| This region was getting famous
through the making of the alpine competitions of the Olympic winter games in the year
1992 of Albertville. Since that, this region is one of the most beautiful and many-sided
skiing areas world-wide and is much frequented of persons doing winter
sports. |
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| "Espace
Killy" is also famous for a excellent infrastructure of the ski lifts and of the
combined areas of Val d'Isère and Tignes. All in all in this region are
10.000 ha piste available, which distribute to a
difference in altitude of 2000 meters. Also snowboarders
are very welcome in this area: a 35.000 qm large snowpark is free of use. |
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| A special quality in this skiing area it the famous
"Funival". This is a floating train, which move half under
the earth and half on the earth. Persons doing winter sports came to
Val d'Isère in only 4 1/2 minutes length of the trip to the mountain
"Bellvarde". And there expect you the famous Olympic downhill run of 1992,
the "Face de Bellvarde", which goes with at some stages really frightening
falls in the valley. The second mountain of Val d'Isère is the Solaise. This
mountain is very famous because of his extreme hunchbacked ski runs by all persons
doing active winter
sports. |
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