It was enough to make anyone want to go off-piste.
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To stand any chance of success, he must go spectacularly off-piste.
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"The mountain has gotten bigger with off-piste trails opening," she said.
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Their videos are, for a pints-and-lads rock band, very off piste.
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Then, there were the two snowmobilers who'd recently disappeared after going off-piste.
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I observe things around me or on a picture and off-piste the scenario.
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La polizia avviò una ricerca per persona scomparsa, però sembrava seguire strane piste di indagine.
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There's little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor.
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It's called Hors Piste, and it's just six minutes of wonderfully goofy and perfectly done slapstick comedy.
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It was a tight competition in brutally difficult conditions, with a blizzard blowing up the mogul piste.
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Here, Mr. Bottura shares his five favorite places, on- and off-piste to eat in the Dolomites.
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Police said five people had been in the off-piste area near St Anton when the avalanche hit.
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Human presence is denied: no driver can be seen maneuvering behind the dark glasses of the piste machines.
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He added that some of Europe's best off-piste, free-ride ski terrain is also in this region.
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Clad in traditional shalwar-kameez robes, Ali, 67, eyed the piste and wedged his feet into ski boots.
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The highest peak towers above at around 10,000 feet, while the highest piste at Borovets reaches about 000,500.
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As I dropped from the lip of the summit to the piste, my head was literally in the clouds.
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It is a skiing analogy—once you've gone off-piste, it's quite nice to get back on the main run.
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Didveli has a gondola and a few decent runs plus a couple of spots for some relaxed off-piste exploring.
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"They go off piste," he says, proffering his current brew in a giant glass vessel, reminding me of school lab days.
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So building yet another database to contain children's ages isn't perhaps as off piste as you might imagine for the country.
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Vonn said the 2,633-meter Engiadina downhill piste, with its blind turns and rolling terrain, was a good hill for her.
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The group of six men and two women was skiing off-piste, when the avalanche struck mid-afternoon at the Tomamu resort.
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On-mountain meals are notoriously expensive (the summer menu at Piste Mountain Bistro at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort had soup at $13).
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Canada's Andi Naude had the chance to claim glory on the final run but slid off the piste and did not finish.
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C'est une bonne piste pour essayer de séparer l'État et le Culte tout en intégrant les musulmans de France à la France.
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So it's kind of nice, it just makes what you do normally quite attractive to get back to once you've gone off-piste.
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Karl-Erivan Haub, the heir to the Tengelmann supermarket chain, went missing while skiing off-piste near Switzerland's famous Klein Matterhorn on Saturday.
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That morning, I arced big turns down long, groomed cruisers and tucked through trees and around boulders, charting my own course off-piste.
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Instead it's aimed at the backwoods hiker or off piste skier who wants to get from Point A to Point B without getting lost.
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The following off-the-beaten-piste ski areas in North America offer new incentives to visit, including winter golf, extreme sledding and terrain expansions.
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But 2,500 of those 2,600 feet are a vertical drop and 15 hectares of scream-worthy off-piste glades are available for the terror seeker.
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La machine s'est mise au travail et en un tour de piste a fait de l'impétrant le candidat du peuple, le favori, le héros indépassable.
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Mr. Martrenchard, the government representative, said that avalanches had occurred before in that zone, which is known to experienced skiers as an off-piste path.
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Best for: Piste rockets The maple cores of these handmade skis are fortified with strips of HDT, a polymer that stiffens as pressure is applied.
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The number of times either boy troubles or inordinately off-piste drunk behaviour could be summed up perfectly by a track from that album was uncanny.
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Avalanches were always a risk but only in the off-piste areas, he said, like where the Russian tourist was skiing on the day we arrived.
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At last season's world championships in St Moritz, he stormed off the piste, swearing and refusing to talk to reporters, after a poor performance in the slalom.
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But to the director Emma Miller's credit, that bout is a long, real-time slog up and down the piste, effortful and tough, and a little ugly.
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One of these, "Hors Piste," an Aardman-inflected slapstick extravaganza directed by Léo Brunel, Camille Jalabert, Loris Cavalier and Oscar Malet, ought to have earned a nomination.
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The four had been off-piste in that zone earlier in the day, the tourist office said in a statement, but they had not met any danger.
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The pre-teen was skiing off-piste at the La Plagne ski resort in the French Alps when he was taken under by snow, the Associated Press reported.
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The women's giant slalom run on the Rainbow piste starts at an elevation of 1,368 meters and is 1,250 meters long with a vertical drop of 400 meters.
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The women's giant slalom run on the Rainbow piste starts at an elevation of 1,368 metres and is 1,250 metres long with a vertical drop of 400 metres.
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WENGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - It takes more than an ankle injury, a mishap involving a military aircraft or a drone falling on to the piste to stop Marcel Hirscher.
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The boundaries of the off-piste areas aren't strongly enforced, and there are tracks everywhere left by boarders slicing through the ungroomed snow as if it were water.
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For those looking to go off-piste and have a bit of solitude without traveling several hours west to more obscure mountains, Gudauri is the place to be.
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Winter sports fans might say the majesty of the mountains, the clarity of the air, the rush of careening down a tricky piste, swishing from side to side.
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After a large avalanche spilled onto the piste at Andermatt, two people were pulled from the snow and taken to Uri hospital with minor injuries, Swiss police said.
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Over a long weekend last winter, I took a northern Michigan road trip to test my theory that elevation isn't everything and compensations can come well off-piste.
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The consensus was that the Jeongseon piste would suit his style and Jansrud has backed that up this week with the second-best time in all three training runs.
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The area around the hamlet of Findeln is excellent for beginners, while more experienced skiers will enjoy the intermediate slopes and off-piste areas coming down from the Rothorn station.
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The Republican Company for Alps Security in the town of Albertville said the group of nine had been skiing off piste near the Tignes ski resort when the avalanche hit Monday.
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But, why I do these things—I do certain things like this that are a bit off-piste, a bit left-field, it's not what I normally do—is precisely that.
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The avalanche happened in early afternoon in Valfrejus in the department of Savoie and caught 51 military personnel by surprise as they were skiing off-piste, the police said in a statement.
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The group of four had been using touring skis, which enable skiers to climb as well as ski down slopes and explore off-piste, police in the western province of Vorarlberg said.
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The biggest disappointment was for Kauf who, with her family and friends raucously cheering her on from the bottom of the piste, had looked in good form coming into the second final.
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The 26-year-old, competing in his first Olympics, knocked Aksel Lund Svindal no less out of the medals with his blistering run down the Jeongseon piste in one minute, 24.82 seconds.
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And concierge robots are a little like smartphone assistants — the ones I've seen, anyway, are pre-programmed with template responses, and if you do something that goes off-piste they get confused.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - At an Olympics marred by doping revelations and a meager medal count, Russia fought back on the fencing piste to their best finish in the sport since 1996.
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The precipitous and shaded 64-degree pitch is flanked by towering spires, a majestic sight near the top of the famed piste with a ski racing history dating to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
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The men's Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen, Switzerland, which is one of the highlights of the season, also fell victim to heavy snowfalls with nearly half a meter of fresh snow covering the piste.
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Marius Robyr, in charge of organizing the races, was quoted in Tuesday's Tribune de Geneve, before the avalanche, as saying there was 1 to 1.5 meters of snow on La Nationale ski piste.
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Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather was in second place with a time of 1:21.22, while Switzerland's Lara Gut was one hundredth of a second back in bronze medal position after negotiating the piste in 1.21.23.
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The avalanche was triggered shortly before 10 A.M. (0900 GMT) in an off-piste area of the vast resort and swept across a relatively easy "blue" slope often used by inexperienced skiers and children.
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La sezione di intelligence dell'ambasciata italiana non aveva piste, così Massari chiese di vedere il ministro degli Esteri, il ministro della Produzione Militare e il consigliere egiziano per la Sicurezza Nazionale, Fayza Abul Naga.
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Covering five countries on three continents in the span of 2657 days, a ski trip launching this December lets people experience some of the best glacier runs and off-piste heli-skiing on the planet.
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Is this a sort of point of creative tension that you have to keep an eye on, to make sure you don't go too far off piste, or does each track just develop according its own 'logic'?
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The 38-year-old had been skiing off-piste with seven friends - all French - in an area near the Tomamu resort on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, when the avalanche struck mid-afternoon on Thursday, Kyodo said.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss and Italian police continued their search on Wednesday for German retail magnate Karl-Erivan Haub who has been missing since Saturday when he failed to return from an off-piste skiing tour in the Alps.
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"I am happy that I got to ski my last race here in Cortina, one of my favourite stops on the tour," she said on Friday after skiing the Olimpia delle Tofane piste in a Wonder Woman suit.
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"We've gone a bit off piste," Tony Purnell, former principal of Formula One motor racing teams Jaguar and Red Bull, now head of British Cycling's Research/Innovation department, told Reuters on Thursday at the Rouleur Classic in London.
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Safety and proper decorum, not speed, also seem to be paramount concerns — fences prevent skiers from going off-piste, helmets are ubiquitous, and signs constantly remind visitors to select the appropriate slope for their skill level and slow down.
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ZERMATT, Switzerland (Reuters) - Missing German retail boss Karl-Erivan Haub has "a minimal chance" of rescue four days after he failed to return from an off-piste skiing tour in the Alps, a Swiss search official said on Wednesday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Tengelmann retail group chief Karl-Erivan Haub, whose family is among Germany's wealthiest, has been missing since Saturday when he failed to return from an off-piste skiing tour in the Alps, German and Swiss media reported on Tuesday.
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A Mostaganem, comme dans d'autres villes et villages du pays, il n'y a pas de cinéma, de piscine, de piste de danse ou de restaurant — pas le droit non plus d'embrasser ses amoureux ou de leur tenir la main en public.
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Organizers said high winds at the top of the gondola that transports skiers to the top of the Jeongseon piste had forced a delay of one-hour with the race now scheduled to get underway at noon local time (0300 GMT).
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The relatively benign 2.85 km piste created by his fellow-countryman and former Olympic champion Bernhard Russi at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre features several jumps but is a far cry from the more spectacular descents on the World Cup circuit.
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GANSEONG, South Korea (Reuters) - With its rocky, overgrown, and snowless piste, the isolated and abandoned Alps Ski Resort deep in the mountains of South Korea's Gangwon province is a decaying monument to the fate of winter sports in the country.
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Most of the big names looked to be skiing well within themselves as they acclimatised to the piste and worked on figuring out which line down the mountain would give them the best chance of landing a gold medal on Sunday.
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On that fine bluebird day, I came as close to "shredding the gnar" — ski parlance for speeding down the mountain — as a wobbly-thighed, AARP-eligible woman could, flying down the Ciampac piste as the Marmolada glacier glistened in the distance.
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FRANKFURT, April 18 (Reuters) - German retail group Tengelmann has appointed Christian Haub as sole chief executive, the group said on Wednesday, the younger brother of Karl-Erivan Haub, who went missing earlier this month during an off-piste skiing tour in the Alps.
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Inevitably then, the show is a mixed bag from the start, though this is by no means a bad thing; the show refers to a "rich and rewarding exchange," rather than try to prove a direct collaboration, allowing a refreshingly off-piste ride.
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After an 18-year career, having made her World Cup debut as a 15-year-old in 1999, Mancuso bowed out on the piste where she claimed her first World Cup podium finish with second place in a super-G in January 2006.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A day after star model Gisele Bundchen sashayed down the middle of the opening Olympic ceremony to rapturous applause, the crowd was going crazy for another graceful, long-haired Brazilian model strutting her stuff on the fencing piste.
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Goggia will be the fifth skier to take to the piste while Vonn got her wish to go out behind the Italian but in the top 10 and will start seventh ahead of compatriot Breezy Johnson and Sochi bronze medallist Lara Gut.
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But Mr. Trump is different, as much carnival barker, showman and self-promoter as politician, particularly when he wanders off-piste and into extemporaneous soliloquies about his favorite topics: the superiority of Donald J. Trump and the evilness of Donald J. Trump's enemies.
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MALAM JABBA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Atop the piste of Malam Jabba in Pakistan's once dangerous Swat Valley skiers schuss downhill, a new Chinese-built chairlift ferries tourists to the peak, and a luxury hotel is under construction to replace one torched by the Taliban.
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Charlie Zailer, for starters, is annoyed that her sister and her sister's boyfriend may have "pretended to split up rather than actually split up," so she does a little off-piste undercover work, spying on her sister on trains and in cafes.
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Prime Minister Theresa May's failure, after three attempts, to get her divorce deal with Brussels through parliament has sent the UK's planned departure careering off-piste, raising questions over who is in charge and when, how or even if the UK will actually leave.
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"Some aspects of the sport do seem to be more dangerous today – the jumps are bigger, rails are more common, and off piste terrain is more accessible," said Dr. Kelly Bergmann, a doctor of emergency pediatric medicine with Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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Some readers might have to go off-piste from Love Langauges doctrine here, either by considering physical touch inclusive of sex, or by thinking of sex as something that happens as part of other love languages, like quality time or even, let's be honest, acts of service.
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But the technique Dr de Rosales and Dr Gabizon have invented may be able to stop that—either by letting doctors work out in advance which people are most susceptible to a drug going off-piste, or by tracking what is happening in individual patients, and taking evasive action.
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The Sinskey was followed by the tart, juicy Fausse Piste Oyster Sauce, made from grenache from the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon, and the fresh Macari — from the North Fork of Long Island, and made of malbec and petit verdot — which had an unusual tutti-frutti, watermelon flavor.
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Mr. Epskamp also likes Val di Fassa, particularly for the groomed runs of the Catinaccio and Ciampac-Buffaure ski areas, and the access to off-piste ski routes that run down the side of the Sella massif into Passo Pordoi and the village of Colfosco in Alta Badia.
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The four snowboarders — a 219-year-old man, his son, 248, and stepson, 19, and their 59-year-old instructor, all French citizens — were off-piste and preparing to descend a steep slope at the Tignes ski resort in the Vanoise range when the avalanche hit, officials said.
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Instead, skiers find more than 7,500 feet of off-piste terrain: steep alpine faces, 3,363-foot couloirs and rolling glacier runs — all reached by the Téléphérique, a rainbow-colored lift that rises from a maze of old stone houses, narrow alleyways and a smattering of restaurants, hotels and ski shops.
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"I know it's meant to be a parody of the Gothic novel, but I find it the hardest to read of all her books," said Janet Rosowicz, a pension plan administrator from Plymouth Meeting, Pa. "Did we lose David?" one of the ladies said of Mr. Best, who had wandered off piste somewhere.
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The camera is good enough for capturing the odd video; use it underwater on a well-lit reef or bolt it to the front of your snowboard for some off-piste fun, but the lasting impression I'm left with is that I just wish I had a waterproof housing to keep my iPhone safe instead.
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Curators Lelia Packer and Jennifer Sliwka openly do not attempt this, instead adopting a more inventive approach by selecting art-historically off-piste examples that take the viewer through an utterly absorbing display in which there are almost as many uses for grayscale as there are exhibits — a great many of which will be new and fascinating to the average viewer.
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It came courtesy of a model named Hirakish, who careened down the runway in a patent-leather suit and spiky high-heeled bootees, and who proceeded to go off-piste and to spend the rest of the show running in and out of the stands, interrupting other models' struts and otherwise joyfully, and challengingly, sticking his stiletto-shod feet in our faces.
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Each of the projects in this issue represents both the perils of an on-the-job education and proof of the glories of going off-piste, whether it's Tom Dixon's 11,000-square-foot Brutalist mansion teetering on the cliffs above Monaco, the furniture and product designer's first built-from-scratch home, or the New York-based creative director Dennis Freedman's 100-plus-piece collection of post-1960s Italian radical design furniture and objects, begun when few others were interested in the field, or the Milan-based Dimore Studio's 1960s house in the hills above Florence, which they converted into a Modernist fever dream after a protracted battle with local authorities.
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