Whistler Bike Park Instructor Academy – Week 1

  The Peak Leaders ‘Whistler Bike Park Instructor Academy’ has kicked off and it’s been a bangin’ first week! It’s fair to say that we have an awesome crew here for the next 3 weeks and they’re all settling in nicely to life in the “Whistler Bubble” (It really is tough to leave The Bubble). We all spent the first day getting sorted; building bikes, […]

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New Accommodation in Verbier

  Verbier is one of the most exclusive ski resorts on the planet so it’s only fitting that our trainees in Verbier should stay in some seriously swanky accommodation for the 10-weeks of the course. With that in mind we’ve organised some new, even nicer, accommodation for our 2014/15 trainee ski instructors. Trainees will have access to a HUGE lounge which they can kick back […]

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Meet the team: Emma Cairns

  Meet Emma Cairns. Emma is a course leader for Peak Leaders and is also the head ski trainer on our Verbier and Saas Fee courses. For the majority of the year Emma is based in Verbier, where she works for European Snowsport and is a BASI level 4 instructor and Swiss Patente holder. Emma has been a course leader on our Switzerland and Argentina courses […]

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Catching up with Faction Skis

  We recently caught up with Faction Ski’s marketing manager, Beanie Milne Home, at Faction’s head office in Verbier to chat about their partnership with Peak Leaders, their latest products, and to hear why they call Verbier home.

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VIDEO BLOG: Banff 2014 (Final Episode)

  The final video blog from Banff 2014 catches up with our trainee ski and snowboard instructors on the day of their CSIA/CASI level 2 results. This year all of the trainees walked away with the level 2 qualification so there was definitely reason for celebration. Congratulations team!

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