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During the 1950s, Service of the Study and Development of Mountain Tourism (SEATM) was created by the local authorities to create the ski resort of Courchevel.Due to its great success, in the 1960s the mayor of Saint-Martin-de-Belleville decided to follow suit and create a society with the plan to create 100 000 beds divided between the two main resorts of Les Menuires and Val Thorens, plus ...
Les Karellis: 17 ski lifts, 28 ski slopes (60 km), 30 km of cross-country skiing; Les Menuires: 42 ski lifts, 73 ski slopes (150 km), 28 km of cross-country skiing; Méribel: 53 ski lifts, 74 ski slopes (150 km), 33 km of cross-country skiing; Monchavin: 54 ski lifts, 134 ski slopes (225 km), 16 km of cross-country skiing
Méribel Les Allues is a ski resort that was developed adjacent to the traditional hamlet of Morel, with its centre situated at about 1400 metres above sea level. [1] It was founded by a Scotsman, Major Peter Lindsay, [ 2 ] who was looking for a new site for winter sports away from the ski resorts of Austria and Germany, because of the growing ...
Courchevel's couloirs are considered some of the most difficult black runs in the world. Courchevel, along with the Three Vallees, is renowned for a wide selection of difficult pistes and off-piste, powder skiing. [citation needed] Courchevel's sister city is Park City, Utah in the United States, and it has a red-graded ski piste named "Park City".
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
The Tarentaise Valley is the biggest concentration of world-class ski resorts in the world. The well-known neighbour systems are Paradiski (Les Arcs and La Plagne) and Les Trois Vallées (Courchevel, Meribel, Val Thorens and more). There were once plans to interlink all systems and resorts to create the largest ski area in the world.
It is only about two kilometres (1.2 mi) kilometres up the road from "Piste Oreiller-Killy" in La Daille, another legendary course with a lengthier World Cup tradition. With 17.8 degrees (32.1%) incline it is the world's steepest giant slalom course in average gradient, with no flat sections, only steepness the whole time.