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Many lifts are fast 6 or 8 person chairlifts and there are 113 snow cannons which produce 450,000 m 2 of artificial snow each year. [11] The ski area is linked through easy access with the adjacent resort of Val-d'Isère, combining to form the Tignes-Val d'Isere ski area (formerly known as Espace Killy).
Tignes – Val d'Isère is the combined ski resort area of Val d'Isère and Tignes in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie in the French Alps. It is sometimes known as Espace Killy, in honour of the spectacularly successful skier Jean-Claude Killy who was raised there. [5] [6] There are claimed to be 300 km of pistes:
Tignes-les-Brevières (French pronunciation: [tiɲ le bʁevjɛʁ]; 1550m) is a small skiing village in the French Alps that is the lowest point of the ski resort of Tignes. [ 1 ] Owing to its geographical location the village receives as much snowfall as its neighbours and during the 2005/6 season, Les Brevieres had over 4 metres of snow.
Tignes Val Claret is the highest of the five villages that make up the Tignes Ski resort, [1] sitting at 2,100 metres. It is the resort's newest village, built mainly in the 1960s as demand grew for skiing in the resort of Tignes. [2] Like many resorts built at this time, Tignes Val Claret was constructed primarily as a ski resort.
La Tania: 64 ski lifts, 124 ski slopes (150 km), 30 km of cross-country skiing; Termignon: 6 ski lifts, 14 ski slopes (35 km), 35 km of cross-country skiing; Tignes: 42 ski lifts, 67 ski slopes (150 km) La Toussuire: 22 ski lifts, 33 ski slopes (45 km), 27 km of cross-country skiing
A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill. Ski lifts are typically a paid service at ski resorts . The first ski lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalder in Schollach/ Eisenbach , Hochschwarzwald .
Val d'Isère is renowned as having some of the world's best lift-accessed off-piste and has many independent instructors and guides who specialise in off-piste tuition and guiding. [4] Tignes possesses more of the same, with a funicular shuttling skiers up through one of the mountains to the Grande Motte glacier. A free shuttle bus runs between ...
On arrival at 3,032 m (9,948 ft) one can transfer to the Grande Motte cable-car that brings the skier to 3,456 m (11,339 ft), the highest point in Tignes. The system opened on 15 June 1989. The name Perce-Neige is a play on words, in that perce-neige is the French word for a snowdrop but can also be interpreted more literally as the funicular ...