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 […]
Daniel Thomson enrolled as a trainee instructor on Peak Leaders’ Saas Fee ski instructor course in September 2015. Now, 8 months after completing the course Daniel and girlfriend Gabi are doing their second season in the land down under. What made you decide to do a ski instructor course? I’d always wanted to do one – one of my friends actually did Peak Leaders before. […]
Week 10 of the Verbier 10 week ski instructor course and the trainees may have finished the course, but are in fact just beginning their onwards journey, whether that’s staying in Verbier as a Ski Instructor, trekking Kilimanjaro or another gap year we wish everyone the best of luck, and thanks for another epic course! The finish is near…but it’s not the end! At the end of last week, Jon sat down with all […]
Week 8 of the Verbier 10 week ski instructor course and the final week at that! The group will do their BASI Level 2 exams, but not without some epic events thrown in for good measure! Here’s group leader Charlie with the update… What a week it’s been! On Monday, our future ski instructors headed off at the crack of dawn to hop on Verbier Transport’s mini-bus, excited…clutching […]
Week 7 of the Verbier 10 week ski instructor course and the group are enjoying massive dumps of fresh snow, not for the ‘fair weather’ hearted! Here’s group leader and ski instructor Charlie with the update… It’s STILL snowing! Here in Verbier we’re now into a second week with Element Ski School and more days seeing snow than not – and we aren’t talking just a smattering […]
