Day 5 - ready for fresh powder

This is the view from the bedroom balcony. The clouds cleared this morning leaving plenty of fresh powder - wehey!

Group Three: Day Four

Major Monger's day with Group Three

I had a great day today.  Group Three are wonderful.  In the words of Iggy Pop, they have a 'lust for life'. Harrison Stevens is so fired up by the Swiss Alps, he felt the need to leap in the air, and, on landing, bury his head in the snow.

We played rugby with a toy bird; performed the limbo through our instructor's legs; and, supported each other in snaking down the mountain backwards.

All in all, a great day.

Group 5, day 4

Lots more progress was made today - we're getting quite speedy now! It was nice to stay in Nendaz for the morning and get down the slopes with a little more success. We did the blue and a few reds and skied to the bottom of the mountain. With the exception of Miss K-N- who moaned about HER legs about a few million times- we had a go at some more jumps after a bit of off piste fun! The afternoon was spent in Siviez which was great.

Group 2, Day 4

Here we are on Mont Fort. We nailed Verbier today. We spent our day chasing, and occasionally beating, group one. A fantastic day of challenging slopes, speed and endurance.

Today's typical alpine dinner

Tonight we were treated to delicious raclette for dinner. This is a typical alpine dish which involves melted raclette cheese, potatoes and cold charcuterie meats. The students loved being adventurous and tucked into the food with enthusiasm. 

Group 1, Day 4

A fun day in Verbier was had by all. Highlights include jumps in the snow park, ski cross, speed trap (which measures speed) and a big ski jump landing on an inflated cushion. Mr Weeks amazed everybody with his acrobatics, nailing a perfect backflip. Mr Lewis, however, had a disappointing day loosing at ski cross to Mr Weeks.

Monsieur Bump nominations Day 4

And the nominations today were: 

Matthew Reynolds - for thinking he had lost his jumper, only to find that he'd left it at home in Wales.

Tom Kynaston - for spending 20CHF on the claw machine to try to win a pink cuddly toy.

Ollie John - for trying to ski in a cool way but unfortunately skied straight into a tree.

Ryan Williams - while off-piste, he didn't take a turn to follow everybody else back onto the piste and flew into a tree and down a steep bank.

Tom Coates - for skiing off-piste and face-planting deep snow and making a snow angel.

Mr Ling - for trudging around for 20 minutes in Mr Monger's boots thinking 'these don't feel right'!

Mrs Ellis - although she only had 5 boarders in her group to take care of, she managed to loose one on a slope.

And the very popular winner was Ollie John.