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Val D Isere Ski Schools & Guiding

Numerous ski instructors, mountain guides and private ski schools offer a wide choice of possibilities.
Numerous ski instructors, mountain guides and private ski schools offer a wide choice of possibilities: freestyle, off-piste, telemarking, ski touring (there’s excellent ski touring terrain between Champagny, La Plagne, Les Arcs and the Aiguille Rouge) and even heli-skiing just across the border in Italy. It almost feels as though there might be more ski schools per square metre in Val d’Isère than anywhere else. It offers a multitude of ski itineraries off the beaten track but accessible by ski lift. But do take a mountain guide or ski instructor.
 
Val d’Isère was an early battleground for the ESF (Ecole du Ski Français) when it attempted to stop rival independent ski schools opening up. Patrick Zimmer’s now celebrated Top Ski , an off-piste specialist ski school which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2006 was one of the first in France - possibly the first - to defy the ESF, and set the pattern for proliferating ski schools in almost every major French resort.

Today there’s a huge choice of ski schools to choose from. The ESF, in the ski resort centre and in La Daille, covers adults and children’s group lessons, cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing. It also does day’s outings in the ski area, inter-resort tours, powder skiing and off-piste itineraries with the possibility of a return by helicopter, along with snow-shoe and telemark outings (although heli-skiing as such is banned in France, it is possible to fly people back from heli-skiing days in Italy). Evolution 2 and Alpine Experience are both highly rated.

The Snow Fun ski school also offers group and private ski lessons, off piste, and children’s courses. Oxygene is another very good outfit and amongst usual offerings provides ladies only ski lessons, for those who want to avoid the macho approach. Val Gliss (Philippe and Gerard Mattis) hold off-piste and competition courses. There are a number of British ski schools, including ICE, a training centre which runs gap courses, instructor training and performance courses for all levels of skier, Mountain Masters, a specialist ski school with British and French instructors and guides, the Development Centre and New Generation. For snowboarders Misty Fly Snowboard School offers a full range of snowboard tuition.

Alpine Experience
+33 4 79 06 28 81
www.alpineexperience.com

ESF
Val Centre +33 479 060234
La Daille +33 479 060999

Evolution 2
+33 479 411672
www.evolution2.com/val

ICE
+44 870 760 7360
www.icesi.org

Mountain Masters
+33 479 060514
www.mountain-masters.com

New Generation

Oxygene
+33 479 419958
www.oxygene-ski.com

Snow Fun
+33 479 061679

The Development Centre
+33 615 553156
www.tdcski.com

Val Gliss (Philippe and Gerard Mattis)
+33 479 060072

Snowboard schools - contact details

Misty Fly Snowboard School
+33 479 400874

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