INITIAL SNOW Ski School Val d'Isere

S Roam the Val d'Isere ski area
with the ski school's instructors

Discovering Val d'Isere with a mountain professional, a Val d'Isere mountain guide and an Espace Killy ski instructor is a guarantee of safety and pleasure. Val d'Isere offers a multitude of off-piste itineraries on the mountainsides of Le Fornet, Solaise, Bellevarde and of course all the Tignes slopes. You need more than a week of off-piste and easy ski-trekking to fully appreciate the Espace Killy. The Initial Snow Ski School Val d'Isere will ensure you discover as much as possible depending on your technical level. Short ski hikes using the Val d'Isere ski lifts where possible will enable you to make your own tracks in the spectacular scenery that is Val d'Isere.

S The Ski School doesn't only cover the Val d'Isere ski area

For the more daring among you, Tignes and the Grande Motte offer wonderful opportunities to ski down the north face through seracs and crevasses. This is the magic of the Espace Killy: Val d'Isere and Tignes are unlike anywhere else. The ski and adventure school can offer you a thrilling time on this great mountain.

S Val d'Isere Ski and Heli-Ski School

In the Le Fornet and the Col de l'Iseran sectors, a combination of an hour of ski-trekking and a wonderful descent to Bonneval en Maurienne with a return trip to the Val d'Isere ski area by helicopter will be one of the best day's skiing you will ever experience...

The Initial Snow Ski School ski instructors will organise the helicopter drop with a starting point in Val d'Isere. Within a few minutes of skiing, we will find ourselves in the Aosta Valley (Ruitor, Monseti, etc...) or in the Sestriere ski area. Of course heli-skiing is an elite activity but the helicopter also enable you to link between resorts, to meet up with friends or to plant your skis in the powder of Haute Tarentaise resorts.

S Val d'Isere Ski Lessons

For families, little trips on the edge of pistes or on easy off-piste itineraries offer a chance to discover the fauna of the Vanoise National Park adjacent to the Espace Killy. Alain, Initial Snow Val d'Isere Ski Instructor, will tell you all about his love of agriculture and of mountain livestock farming. Alain will fascinate you with his tales of shepherding and the 10 years he spent working on the mountain pastures of Val d'Isere and its surroundings. What makes the Initial-Snow Ski School of Val D'Isere so worth while is its staff - more than just technicians, teachers, instructors and mountain guides, they are truly passionate about their work and very involved in the Tarentaise region.

It is only possible to explore these vast mountain terrains once you have been taught the necessary skiing techniques. The Initial Snow Ski School of Val d'Isere, with its mountain guides and ski instructors, is a guarantee of pleasure, of quickly learning the techniques that will enable you to appreciate wide open spaces without being limited by a lack of technique.

S Val d'Isere Mountain Guide

Eric is very aware of the problem of avalanches. Indeed he lectures on the subject at Snow and Avalanche conferences as part of the national snow and avalanche study association, the ANENA's prevention programme. Visit the ANENA website (www.anena.org) for all the latest information.