Former British Olympic skier and TV presenter Chemmy Alcott has spent the past week, the first seven days of her 40s, wearing the rubbish she created. Chemmy was challenged to wear her rubbish for a week by circular skiwear company EcoSki in a bid to highlight the amount we send to landfill and its impact on climate change. Mum-of-three Chemmy, who turned 40 on 10 July, wore recycled plastic bags filled with the rubbish she “throws out” over the course of a week while attending events in London, doing the school run and even while out paddleboarding. On the final day she weighed it all and found her rubbish at the end of the week was 4.5kg, 100 grammes more…

A ski area in Vermont formerly known as ‘Hill No.6’ and more recently ‘Suicide Six’ has changed its name again to Saskadena Six. The name change, announced as coming soon last month, is the latest of several attempts to remove insensitive business titles and follows the decision to rename the better-known Californian ski area and 1960 Winter Olympics host ‘Squaw Valley’ as ‘Palisades Tahoe’. The word “squaw” is considered a racist slur by many people and using “suicide” considered insensitive when the number of people taking their own lives in Vermont is at a record high. Saskadena (pronounced “sahs-kah-deena), which means ‘standing mountain’ recognises that the land was originally inhabited by the  Abenaki people before Europeans arrived and took it.…

Issued: 13th July 2022 By Patrick "Snowhunter" Thorne Southern Hemisphere European Roundup North American Roundup Asia Roundup World Overview Very different pictures from both sides of the world as we move deeper into winter/summer …depending on which hemisphere you’re looking at. In the southern hemisphere, it's an increasingly good picture with more snowfall reported. This last week it's the Andes that are really seeing the most significant accumulations and the first taste of real Andean powder of the season at several centres. In Australia and New Zealand, it's been more a case of further snowfalls improving a mostly already good season start. In the northern hemisphere, however, the picture is a quite sad one of ever more glacier areas in the…

Issued: 6th July 2022 By Patrick "Snowhunter" Thorne Southern Hemisphere European Roundup North American Roundup Asia Roundup World Overview We’re into July, peak season and school holiday times for several ski nations in the southern hemisphere, and getting to the height of summer in the north. The two extremes of weather on each side of the world are quite marked with glaciers closing and sadly even collapsing, leading to the death of several climbers in Italy earlier this week in the north, but more snow falling on the mountains of the southern hemisphere. As the season develops in the southern hemisphere the deepest reported base here has now reached the two metres mark and the largest amount of terrain open at…