For those with a sense of adventure, why not try a day’s heli-skiing – you’ll get top quality off-piste skiing with a qualified guide in places that are only accessible by helicoper, plus the thrill of the ride itself – a bird’s-eye view of the mountains as you’ve never seen them before. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be an expert off-piste skier to heli-ski with us – most of the terrain is wide open snow fields and not too steep.
If you’re still an off-piste novice, ideally you’d book a day’s off-piste guiding with us first brush up your technique and allow us to assess whether you’d get the most out of a heli-ski trip. If you’re already a reasonably experienced off-piste skier, you’ll love every seond! We provide full safety equipment – airbag, shovel, probe and avalanche beacon – and teach you how to use it, so that you may ski in complete security. The majority of our heli-trips are in Italy, which means starting from La Rosière, but if you’re happy to do a bit of skinning (ski touring), we can take you over the back of the Pissaillas glacier for a glorious ski down to Bonneval-sur-Arcs, lunch in Bonneval and skiing there before being picked up by the helicopter and dropped back off in Val d’Isere.
Prices start at ¢325 per person for a group of four people for a single drop. This includes the price of the guide. For further details and options, please contact us.
We’re a tight-knit team of highly experienced mountain professionals in Val d’Isere. Off-piste and backcountry skiing are our specialities, but we also offer a range of other services including technical lessons, snowboarding, telemark, and heli-skiing!
We’re a tight-knit team of highly experienced mountain professionals in Val d’Isere. Off-piste and backcountry skiing are our specialities, but we also offer a range of other services including technical lessons, snowboarding, telemark, and heli-skiing
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Chris has been living and skiing professionally in the Tarentaise valley for over 30 years. His principal playground is the Espace Killy but for those wishing to explore further afield, he is also very familiar with the Paradiski area, Sainte-Foy and the Three Valleys.
Hugely experienced, his mission is to find the best conditions for your ability and safety and to improve your technique and mountain knowledge along the way.
His mountain talents have clearly also filtered down to the next generation – after just 3 years as a member of the French ski mountaineering team, Chris’s daughter Emily has brought home the World Cup two years running.
Melvin is a dynamic young instructor who was practically brought up either on skis or on the water. A fully qualified ski instructor with a passion for freeride and freestyle, Melvin is equally at home on skis or on a snowboard. During the summer, he leaves the mountains behind and heads for the Atlantic coast where is also a qualified sailing and wakeboard instructor. Oh, and he is also a talented speed-rider. In short, there is no end to his talents and he is a fantastic asset to the team.
Didier is what you might call a “skier’s skier”. He spent many years as a trainer and coach with ENSA, the national training school for ski instructors, in parallel with his career within the UCPA where, as chief instructor at the centres of Tignes, Val d’Isere and Les Deux Alpes, he was also responsible for the training of young instructors. Didier is without doubt the best technician of the team, and enjoys the challenge of refining his technique to adapt to the new technologies and materials that are available to skiers today. His main activity within iSki remains off piste skiing, but teaching those who are willing to learn, whatever their level, remains a passion. He is also an extraordinary telemarker (and hence telemark instructor) and can occasionally be seen leading his off piste groups on telemark skis.
After an initial – and successful – career in business following his university degree, Philippe finally decided to follow his true passion which was skiing. Having skied competitively at club level from a fairly early age, he was able to qualify as an instructor with relative ease, and since then has devoted himself to off piste skiing and ski touring around the Tarantaise.
Hugely experienced, Philippe also teaches all levels of the “MetaSki” teaching system, a scientific approach that complements body mechanics and is often far more successful than traditional techniques for nervous skiers or those experiencing some kind of “skiers block”.
A fluent French speaker, Kiera is an important member of the team as she manages all the planning as well as email and phone traffic. An excellent skier herself, she can often be spotted “tail-gating” one of our off-piste groups, helping out if necessary, but otherwise just enjoying herself.
