A skier with autism who learned to ski on a Norfolk dry slope has taken bronze and gold medals at the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025 this month. Annabelle Lamb (26) took gold first in her division in the advanced giant slalom at the Games finishing three seconds ahead of the silver and bronze medallists from Belgium and

Qatar has unveiled its first indoor ski machine as the centrepiece of a shopping mall there. IndoorSki Qatar, which runs a medium-sized SkiMachine, has opened in One Mall where it’s the new eyecatcher of the mall. The slope is open from 2pm to 109pm daily and offers lessons, including ski school courses. One Mall was established in 2014 with the

A 50,000-square-foot (4,645sqm), 600 foot (nearly 200m) long dry ski slope installed at Sleepy Hollow ski area in Iowa, USA, is out of action just months after it opened due to technical and construction flaws. The slope itself, supplied by British company Snowflex, was initially used for tubing with skiing and snowboarding introduced more recently, appears to be fine, however

Piste Tribe, which describes itself as, “a tight-knit tribe of skiers who find passion and joy in life on the slopes and sharing a lifestyle and values,” has opened an indoor ski machines facility in SouthKorea. Piste Tribe, located near the university of Cheongju, have two large size Treadmill SkiMachines from  Alpine Engineering BV. Piste Machine work together with conventional

A dry ski slope at Folkestone in Kent on England’s south coast appears to have been saved from closure, although full details of its rescue have not yet been disclosed. The dry slope is part of the wider Folkestone Sports Centre, a popular leisure centre that shut unexpectedly last July after former operators Folkestone Sports Centre Trust ran into financial

The Dry Ski Slope Project at China’s Hebei Sport University has been a leading facility for ice and snow sports teaching and training since 2017. The ski run was scientifically designed, stretching 106 meters in length and 18 meters in width, with a slope gradient ranging from 9 to 18 degrees. This design not only meets the training needs of

Greece’s Minister of Tourism, Mrs. Olga Kefalogianni, has approved €9.9 million (€9,795,181.50 to be precise) in aid for upgrades to the country’s long-established Karpenisi Ski Centre.  The plan is to include a new dry ski slope. This project, which is part of Greece’s Development and Resilience Fund, is the fifth application approved under the Ministry’s program to upgrade ski resort

A new snow park has opened in Berlin, one of the first cities in the world to offer indoor snowsports almost a century ago. The German capital’s popular ‘Drop In’ Skater Hall has installed a state-of-the-art snowpack using a Slopetrax surface, supplied by Skitrax World, to deliver that real snowboard feeling! As its name suggests, Skatehalle Berlin is popular with

From November 7 to 17, Milan hosted the second edition of the Swiss Winter Village in the Porta Nuova district. The initiative by Switzerland Tourism was designed to offer a preview of the Swiss winter with skiing, Christmas markets, and snow activities. The star of the event was a Neveplast ski slope, set up in Piazza Gae Aulenti, where adults