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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Leslie Woit
Leslie Woit 27 January 2025 2:00pm GMT Powder by day? Quaffable wines by night?
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thesnowmag.com | Leslie Woit
Embrace your inner cowgirl and cowboy at this stylish new glamping camp, nestled at the base of the spiky Teton Mountains and the entrance to Grand Teton National Park. Step inside these sophisticated private geodesic domes – there are 11 to choose from, in a variety of configurations – to discover a glorious king-sized bed, bunks for families, tiny kitchenette, heating and A/C, and a rather indulgent en-suite bathroom in each.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thesnowmag.com | Leslie Woit
In a remote Afghan village near Bamyan – a name made notorious when the Taliban exploded its sixth-century Buddhas in 2021 – a human drama is about to unfold. With a newfound passion for skiing, and access to minimal gear and skis fashioned from planks of wood, local children and teenagers take the sport to their hearts. Hiking up and hurtling down, a winter of competition and practice culminates in a hard-fought ski race, an event that also includes a team of young women.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Leslie Woit
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thesnowmag.com | Leslie Woit
When is a book more than just a book? When it’s also a documentary film, a Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies photography exhibition, and an awareness-boosting salute to United Nations International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation in 2025. The new book, Meltdown, is one facet of a multimedia project called “Guardians of the Ice”, a non-profit organization focused on raising awareness of the rapidly shrinking Columbia Icefield – the largest icefield in North America’s Rocky Mountains.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
msn.com | Leslie Woit
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Leslie Woit
This picture of Leslie in 1978 is one of the few times she has worn a helmet A skier since childhood, my first day experimenting with a snowboard was in 1985. After promptly bulldozing another woman at top speed, we laughed and carried on. Forty years on, the climate is less forgiving. A few winters’ ago, Gwyneth Paltrow’s collision with an optometrist on a Utah slope made international headlines, and this autumn a third dramatisation of that alpine contretemps – I Wish You Well – took to the...
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
thesnowmag.com | Leslie Woit
Before heliskiing, there were only two ways to get to the top of the mountain: a slow lift or an even slower walk. Enter the 1970s, when the Beatles broke up, the Concorde took flight, and the ski gods gave us two more choices: Canadian Mountain Holidays or Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing. Now, heliskiing’s two pioneering operators, Wiegele’s and CMH, the original dynamic duo, have come under the umbrella of one owner, Alterra Mountain Company.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
thesnowmag.com | Leslie Woit
Some crave quiet seclusion, others rather like the sound of penetralia. Either way, we’ve come to appreciate our own company more than ever. A possible by-product of those few recent hazy years, there are indisputable pleasures in being left – ever so slightly, of course – to one’s own devices. Enter, relaxed catering. It’s a new concept for anyone accustomed to the traditional white-glove, high-touch luxury of a catered chalet holiday.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Leslie Woit
Writer Leslie enjoying an Italian feast on board Italy's new sleeper train Credit: Leslie Woit For Italians, tempo counts. Adagio – the thrum of cobblestones beneath a Roman taxi. Andante – a serene parade of fur coats down Cortina’s Corso Italia. In Italy, all good things come to those who wait.
