Yes, as part of our weekly piste report for verbier.com we elected Sophie as the next victim to audition in front of the camera. Now, she’s probably the most likely out of the team to end up doing children’s TV, so we had high hopes. And not entirely misplaced – notice the improvised Christmas references.

Meanwhile…

Kent also made his audition for a piste report:

The clouds have broken and Savoleyres is open. This is epic… But also epicly cold.

Yes, we’ve been allowed up and can confirm the there’s quite a lot of snow and quite a lot of people skiing with smiles on their faces, as well as even more who are falling over a lot.

The Medran lifts to Ruinettes opened at about ten today and although the new exciting Mayentset chair lift isn’t rolling yet. It’s time will come and on days like today it will be epic…

And the great news is that it’s kept snowing all day – with more on Wednesday.

How much is up there? No idea, but it’s well over a meter and they’re bombing the place frantically trying to the top of the mountain secure for next week.

 

It’s the biggest storm we can remember for years, maybe decades. And the story from Televerbier is that there’s already more snow this winter than the whole of last season…

So far there’s been a good few feet of snow in town, more up top and some terrifying winds. And more is coming tonight.

It’s snowed so much and been so windy Verbier is shut today and could be closed all weekend depending on who you listen to…

Sorry for the dodgy sound at the end but it’s been very windy up there and hard to hide from…