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If you’re looking for an Alpine MTB trip but want to venture away from the (justifiably popular) Morzine/Les Gets/Portes du Soleil axis, you might want to consider Italy’s Alpi Bike Resort. Like the Portes du Soleil, Alpi Bike Resort encompasses a substantial area — nine towns across four valleys, with 50 freeride routes, several hundred kilometres of XC riding, skills parks, 4X tracks, dirt jump areas and North Shore aplenty.

Mr Fitzherbert, 52, was skiing off-piste down a glacier in the Matterhorn and Monterosa peaks when he fell into the crevasse. The married finance worker from Kensington, west London, told The Sun: “After 70 feet it narrowed and I became stuck like a cork in a bottle between the walls.

Last week we learned locusts were swarming in Ethiopia, wiping out crops vital to the survival of local people. Now we hear grasshoppers are invading Tooele County, Utah, near Salt Lake City. They’re all over the ground, with people crunching them underfoot. The infestation is “worse than anyone can remember,” AP reports.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee extended one last chance to Bulgaria Monday regarding the Pirin National park. The news was reported 30 NGOs known as Bulgaria’s “For the Nature” Coalition. The park has been the subject of several checkups done by UNESCO, which led to the decision to either halt the construction of ski resorts there or no later then February 2010 include the Park in UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger with all due consequences for the Bulgarian State.

New Zealand’s largest ski-field operator is not buying into the recession. A bumper start to the ski season is just icing on the mountain for NZSki, which is midway through a 10-year investment plan. The company has already spent $78 million and has no intention of slowing down, chief executive James Coddington said.

When the Alpine World Ski Championships came to Vail, Colorado for the first time in 1989, the event put the mountain on the world map — now, the community aims to do it again. vail, led by the Vail Valley Foundation and partnered with Vail Resorts and other community members, has begun the bid process to host the 2015 alpine championships.

Former Dakar Rally winner Luc Alphand has successfully undergone spinal surgery following a crash during a motorcycle rally in France. The 43-year-old Frenchman sustained injuries to his spine while competing in the Rand’Auvergne rally in central France on Sunday and will need to undergo an operation in Clermont Ferrand on Monday.