Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) is in Himachal Pradesh, India. It is a heli ski resort that offers skiers an incredible 3500 metres (11483 feet) of vertical descent. We have no information about the existence of any cross country ski trails at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski). The nearest train station to Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) is at Chandigarh.
LOCAL OF MANALI. santosh thakur from INDIA writes:
I’m a resident of Manali since birth and love this place to death. I’m not a very good skier myself but I am learning. Today I was looking for ski in Manali at Google and I come to this page and I ‘m shocked by what Mr Tsering from Germany posted here.
He is talking about environmental issues, and local economy. Which a really good thing thanks a lot for your concern the Manali area but what I don’t understand is why only talking about this heli ski thing. What about all the garage that goes into the rivers. The garage on the Rohtang pass and 100’s of trees being cut all around Manali.
If heli skiing is the biggest issue to you let me clear out a few points. I have a good friend also a local resident of Manali who been working with the heli skiing for 12 year now, yes the company run by a foreigner, yes the hotels is also owned by a person from Delhi. But the fact is that most of the big tour and adventures company that get thousands people from all over from world to Manali and to the Himalayas are not from Manali, and the hotels they use are not owned local. In fact all the big star hotels in Manali are not owned by us and we do not have local pilot here in Manali to fly heli skiing helicopters and if think that all these thousand of tourist that are coming to Manali every year are not helping the economy of the area just because they are not coming to you . Then my friend your are WRONG and if you think about it does help the local economy. Where do these hotel buy all the good items? Where does all the hot staff come from??? What about the drivers that drive the car? What about all the shopping that these tourist do? And you think being a driver or a help or a porters is a mean job?? You are wrong my friend. It’s due to the lack of education people do the job like being a porter or helper and they do live a good life and have loads of friend that a taxi drivers in Manali, who are living a good happy life and not every one can become CEOs and managers in life and I believe that there is a local guy who is a guide with heli skiing who was trained at the company & did the course in Europe and they are training a few others and not every one has the skills and aptitude to be a heli ski guide and the only guys that ski in front of the group is the guide and the heli skiing guides come from Canada I think ..and they are trained to do the job. If it's a dangerous job then how many local people have died heli skiing in Manali? I have not heard of even one. More die on the roads every day. And where do you want all the readers to come to? Which is your place? Please let me know I would like to come too and see what different things will you do. Will you not have people doing the, so you call it, mean job like driving, helping as porters. Let the local people that work with the company decide on whether they are or not paid well or if the promises made to them are met or not. Pl do not go of my point of view Mr Tsering, come and see for yourself. Manali is in the heaven.
