WHERE ELSE CAN YOU SKI IN SUMMER?

TIGNES, FRANCE June 18-July 31 2022

The funicular train from

Val Claret in Tignes accesses 20km of lift-served slopes for all standards on the Grande Motte glacier in the mornings during the summer months – weather dependent. The glacier is also home to the world’s first open-top cable car (above) at 3,000m. Fill your afternoons with other pursuits at no extra cost – the My Tignes pass gives free access to more than 20 activities from tennis and golf to beach volleyball.

ZERMATT-CERVINIA, SWITZERLAND/ITALY Year-round from June 25 to Sept 4 2022

Zermatt and Cervinia share a ski area including glaciers enabling skiing every day from the Zermatt side. From June to September, 23km of runs on red and blue slopes in the shadow of the Matterhorn are accessible from Cervinia too. At the top of the ski area is the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise for views of the mountain, a restaurant, free snow tubing and the Glacier Palace, where visitors can take a lift 15m down inside the glacier. Buy a lift pass for more than three days on the Zermatt side and it includes biking lifts.

HINTERTUX, AUSTRIA Year-round

Hintertux, Austria’s only year-round ski area, offers 60km of varied pistes. There is also a kids’ playground with tubing and a bob run at 3,250m. The Zillertal Activcard (€100 for six days) gives pedestrians and cyclists (there are 800km of cycle trails in the Ziller valley) one daily cable car ride on lifts up and down the valley, along with free access to swimming pools, valley buses and trains, plus discounts on other attractions.