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 […]
The sixth week in Verbier was a little bit more of a relaxed affair for our trainee ski instructors. On Monday, after a morning of training with Emma, the group met in the Ice Bar at the Ruinettes to embark on a pretty unique experience. Most of the group was keen to try a tandem paragliding flight all the way down to Le Chable, […]
This week the group was back training with European Snowsport’s secret weapon, Emma Cairns. The trainees were die to have a ‘full on’ week with 6 whole days on the snow. As week 5 is slap bang in the middle of the course it’s always an important time for the guys and girls to put in the extra hours on the hill. Not only […]
This week’s blog was written by Verbier trainee Ania Zielinska, who’s done a fantastic job, and should definitely be bought a drink by course leader Kaspar! If Julian’s sprightly demonstration of jump turns on the first day of training this week was not enough to stimulate the group to attempt the maneuver, being schooled by Julian’s eight-year-old daughter certainly was. Soon enough, little Clara […]
Arrival in Verbier for our new group of trainees was accompanied by heavy snowfall throughout the weekend, followed by beautiful blue skies for the trainees’ first days in resort. Once everybody had checked in to the Chalet Turbon they all enjoyed a delicious welcome dinner, then it was time to sit together and talk through the course programme with course leader Kaspar. Right from […]
