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Verbier. Verbier (French pronunciation:) is a village located in south-western Switzerland in the canton of Valais. It is a holiday resort and ski area in the Swiss Alps and is recognised as one of the premier off-piste resorts in the world. Some areas are covered with snow all year.
The events take place on off-piste terrain – ungroomed snow on steep slopes, often featuring areas of high exposure. The Freeride World Tour was founded in 1996 as the Verbier Extreme, and was a snowboard only contest until 2004. The first event series under the Freeride World Tour name took place in 2008.
Constantly changing weather and snow conditions add an extra element to these events, and the unpredictably random aspect of freeride terrain contributes to a high risk of personal injury. The Freeride World Tour is an annually toured series of events in which the world's best freeriders compete for individual event wins, as well as the overall ...
The Bec des Rosses is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, overlooking Verbier in the Swiss canton of Valais.It is connected to Verbier and the 4 Vallees ski area. Each year the Bec des Rosses hosts the world's most prestigious extreme skiing and snowboarding contest, the Verbier Extreme, the final event of the Freeride World Tour. Mos
SnoCountry Mountain Reports was the first and is now the largest snow conditions reporting service in the world. SnoCountry provides snow conditions reports for alpine skiing , cross-country skiing , snowboarding , and snow tubing , along with resort information, to a vast array of media including a national network of radio (over 400 AM and FM ...
Tête Blanche, near the highest checkpoint Bertol Hut, above Bertol Pass. The Patrouille des Glaciers (PDG) is a ski mountaineering race organised every two years by the Swiss Armed Forces, in which military and civilian teams compete.
The Faction Collective (also known as Faction Skis or simply Faction) is a Swiss ski equipment design company headquartered in Verbier, in the Swiss canton of Valais. [1] Founded in Verbier in 2006 by a tight-knit group of freeride skiers, Faction now holds brand offices in Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Austria and ...
Image of the Swiss Alps, covered in snow during the daytime. The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, [1] represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.