Final version for our Kickstarter campaign launched in December 2020 to raise initial funding to build the community part of the site with an online shop for local creatives and an interview programme with o’old-timers’. Thanks to Melody Sky, Bas Staines, Kim Witmer & Kerry-Jane Lowery, Jane McLaughlin & Mike Constant. Footage donated by Guido […]
History of the Hotel Mirabeau 1974 Construction of the hotel and management by Chris Stuckelberger. Of Norwegian origin, Chris came to Verbier on the advice of her mother-in-law, who already lived in Verbier and worked there as a secretary. 1985 Purchase of the hotel after 10 years of management. 1985 Shooting of the film Sällskapsresan […]
Falkiner’s advice, “Keep on doing it, always look for something new, the run you haven’t done is the most exciting one”. Known as Team Clambin, John Falkiner, and Mark Shapiro along with Ace Kvale, ushered in the era of Big Mountain Skiing as we know it today back in the 1970’s. As Shapiro says, “Falkiner […]
Postcard to Maurice Filliez (great grandfather of Philippe May) from Camille (not sure of last name) from a hotel in London (we think Maurice worked there a few years based on other papers) Dated 16 August 1915. Great old connection between England and the Val de Bagnes!
Les travaux de la nouvelle télécabine Médran 4 à Verbier vont bon train, afin qu’elle soit opérationnelle pour l’ouverture de la saison de ski. Cette nouvelle installation à dix places remplace la télécabine Médran 1 construite en 1984. Les travaux de la nouvelle télécabine Médran 4 à Verbier vont bon train, afin qu’elle soit opérationnelle […]
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