And the Portes du Soleil is one of the world's largest ski areas, offering 400 square miles of forest-lined pistes, some fun board parks and lots of wide, picturesque blue and red runs, on the ...

This season the Portes du Soleil piste map indicates day-long tours showing skiers how they can make the most of the astonishing 650km of runs connecting eight French and four Swiss villages.

The fact that Portes du Soleil is the closest major ski area to Geneva airport gives it a definite edge: the transfer time to the village of Les Gets (00 334 5075 8080; lesgets.com) is under an hour.

Portes du Soleil, one of the world’s largest ski areas, features 12 resorts, 285 slopes and 196 mountain lifts. Matt Vitre/Portes du Soleil ...

What’s more fun than waking up for a day of snow-centric sports in the French Alps? Getting up in France then skiing over to Switzerland for lunch. Border-hopping is routine in the Portes du ...

On the piste in the French Alps. Les Gets The Cheese Bar at La Chamade The location of Portes du Soleil Dylan Moran once said 'Why go skiing, when you can just stay at home and smash your knees ...