South African snowboarder, Abi O’Donnell, joined us for the 10-week snowboard instructor course in Saas Fee, Switzerland in 2015. Her goal from the outset was to qualify as a snowboard instructor and work with Les Elfes International Ski and Snowboard School in Verbier for the winter season. We caught up with Abi to hear a little about her unique story and to find out how […]
Week 5 and the snow hasn’t stopped falling. Saas Fee has more pistes open than ever at this time of year. Perfect conditions for our crew to try out some new drills for their BASI technical performance. And venture for the first-time into the park to learn some new skills on the boxes, kickers and even how to tackle the superpipe. Here’s course leader Steve with the update… The […]
Week 2 of our 2015 Argentina ski instructor course meant back to the basics of skiing for our trainees. Luckily, Augustine, retired Olympic skier turned Peak Leader coach, was on hand to analyze our trainees every move on video. Course leader, Steve, sends this update … Back to basics Following the large snowfall that occurred prior to the arrival of the trainees, snow conditions remained ideal for […]
Ben was on the 2014 Peak Leaders St Anton 4-week ski instructor course and went on to work the season for the Ski Schule Arlberg. We asked him for a few words on how it all went in one of the world’s best known resorts. Here’s what he had to say about why he started his journey with Peak Leaders … Peak Leaders: What made you decide on a […]
Colo Ziffer, our intrepid Patagonian mountain guide and long time Peak Leader liason in Bariloche, has sent a pre-season blog on all the happenings in South America for our ski instructor gap course in Argentina. Holà Colo here from a cold and snowy Cerro Catedral! Cerro Catedral looking snowy already With not long to go until the start of the Peak Leaders ski instructor gap […]
