Nick Morgan gave up his skis and went to the slopes of Tignes in France to learn to snowboard. As I moved forward on my snowboard, somehow I was at the edge of the piste before I knew it. [...]

The first sound you hear is bells, when you look up there’s a horse drawn sledge waiting to take you to your hotel. This is no gimmick, Avoriaz is a car free zone. When you want to get [...]

Buy three stars get two stars free! Of course, the good people of Canada are too modest to shout this rhetoric from the mountaintops, but it’s true: this season, for what some three star [...]

It’s night as our ship pulls out of Honolulu. On the portside a Hawaiian band strikes up and a single hula dancer moves to the rhythm. The sound washes over the ship and everybody waves and [...]

Napoleon was born here, Nelson lost an eye here and so many different nations have invaded so many times it’s difficult to keep track. This is Corsica, the island to the west of Italy’s leg. The [...]

Falling levels of snow in Europe have produced a new type of skier: the snow-chaser. These people study forecasts and bookmark web cams like a new religion. Directski.com say one in three of [...]

We pull out of New York harbour and glide past the Statue of Liberty. Her iconic torch reaches up in front of the memory of the twin towers. Signs reading ‘We Will Never Forget’ are [...]

Boarding is back, older and wiser. Nick Morgan goes to Brighton to grab some radical air I picked the skateboard up and turned it over lovingly in my hands. I remembered my first board as a kid, [...]