Tom Robbins

Wealthy incomers are driving up house prices — but the real riches await those discovering the wild Tetons on skis

Harriet Fitch Little and Tom Robbins select their must-read titles

When Christmas, Easter and February half-term guarantee crowds and price gouging, could autumn be the answer?

North Face’s colourful new look, Faction’s new boot brand — and a ski lift that fits in your backpack

Direct flights from Dubai to Bhutan, a pop-up ski contest in London, and Bangkok claims the ‘world’s best’ hotel

Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

On Wednesday morning last week, Heathrow’s Terminal 2 was busy with passengers departing for summer breaks everywhere from Stockholm to San Francisco, but I think I was the only one carrying skis. Skiing, as I’ve written before, is a slippery slope. It starts as an innocuous, one-week-per-year family holiday but can quickly become an obsession, driving you to obscure places and extreme lengths in search of snow. Social media has made it worse — from December until Easter, feeds are full of shot…

La Plagne in France is known as a giant, beginner-friendly ‘ski factory’ — but a new lift could change perceptions

Chilean self-drive adventureJanuary and February are ideal times to visit wild, rugged Aysén, Chile’s most sparsely populated region and one that remains off the beaten tourist track. Journey Latin America’s two-week trip includes six days driving along the Carretera Austral past fjords and glaciers, as well as three days on Chiloé Island and the chance to walk among the 1,000-year-old Fitzroya trees of Alerce Andino National Park. It costs from £4,630 per person, including accommodation, domest…

We peered over the top of a perfect-looking slope — sparkling, never-skied powder snow, rolling over the shoulder of the mountain, then dropping out of sight. Dan Loutrel, my guide, stamped his skis in the snow, then dug in his poles, trying to discern any weak layers that, combined with our weight, might trigger an avalanche. He moved forwards and back, obviously weighing up a decision on whether we should go ahead and ski the slope, or retreat. The situation was, as they say in the mountainee…