Tragic news confirmed recently: The Vanoise Express, the enormous cable car that links La Plagne and Les Arcs, is closed for the winter season.

A routine safety inspection found a fault in the cable which can not be repaired until the spring.

This is a real downer, and there are going to be some hefty insurance claims.

Any one with a season pass can request a refund from SAP, or you can keep your pass and just make your own way over.

Like I say: a real downer, especially so early in the season.

On the up side, however, there’s so much skiing in both resorts on their own that you really have to be going some to exhaust either resort in the space of a few weeks.

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