Vars les Chaux is an alpine village near the French - Italian border that makes up a network of interconnected ski resorts. The road in is sealed all the way making access very easy. About the same height as Temple Basin huts and equally as visually stunning, but there the similarity ends.
Some chalets and hotels were built right next to the tows, literally walk out your door and ski down to the gondola. There must have been about 20 separate ski tows visible from the slopes.
The slopes are the venue where Ivan Origone set the World speed record of 254.958 km/hr in 2015.
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| Gretel training for the luge (don't you love the facial expression). A wee way off the world record though. |
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| View of the resort from part way up the tow. |
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| For the advanced skiers |
Used to love watching 'Das Monster' Hermann Myer doing downhill. An Austrian brick layer:) A few years gone now. I've been to where he trained in Austria. Can't think of the name. Very exciting to watch!!
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