Ski Tours
Wow Ski Tours
Over the course of many ski exams, ski instructor training programmes and Gap courses, our Sommet et Neige HQ here in Nendaz kept coming across the respective generations of The Russell family, proprietors of a bespoke women only ski holiday company, WoWSkiTours, based in Alta Badia, in the very beautiful Italian Dolomites.
We’ve had cause, over the years, to train closely with the WoW Team, putting them through their paces and getting them up to scratch for their ski seasons, and have got to know their bad jokes and dry humour pretty well.
They run a tight ship in the Dolomites, offering fully guided and hand held ski itineraries round the very best of the spectacular Dolomiti Superski areas. Their local knowledge is outstanding, having skied in the area for over 20 years. From coffee to couloirs, pistes to pizza, they are a veritable encyclopedia of Dolomite knowledge.
Their lady clients often ask for instruction and ski tips, and despite being all qualified ski instructors, the tight stranglehold on foreign ‘maestri di sci ‘ in Italy means that the WoW team are unable to provide this service.
Cue a Sommet et Neige / WoWSkiTours collaboration!
It seemed to us, over a glass of decent wine, that the way forward would be to help each other.
Operating from the varied terrain and background of the 4 Vallees, the ideal solution seemed to be to for Sommet et Neige to provide training and instruction under the WoWSkiTours banner through Academy Performance Weeks at our HQ in Nendaz.
The Academy weeks aim to provide our women clients with the technique and skills to take their skiing to a new level, and as a consequence, have a whole lot more fun, skiing slopes they would never previously have attempted with confidence and joy.
Our Academy also includes an intro to Off piste option, tackling in instructed sections, some of the spectacular marked ‘yellow’ ( i.e.safe) itinerary runs that the 4 Vallees offer, such that any ski holidays they take in the future, be it on or off piste, in Nendaz, in the Dolomites, with friends or family, are therefore far more likely to be WoW experiences, rather than woe ones!!
WINNERS ALL ROUND
Our Sommet et Neige instructors are all highly qualified, not ony as skiers, but as educators. We believe that good teaching practice creates skilled skiers, and that is why we put the emphasis not only on personal ski performance, but equally the ability to communicate to others. We too, in our own field, are WoW
So TRANSFORM your ski woes into Ski WoWs.
Book a WoW Academy week with us here at Sommet et Neige.
You’ll never want to ski without us again ..
Who are Wow Ski Tours
WoW SkiTours is a bespoke family business operating in the spectacular ski domain of the Italian Dolomites. For some years, this niche company has been running, with much success, Women Only Weeks (hence the WOW!), in groups of up to 8 women, which comprise daily ski itineraries, covering the Best of the Best of this outstanding ski area, a sort of sightseeing on skis, if you will.
The itineraries are fully guided by bilingual hosts, with FISI qualified female ski instructors on hand, all day, every day, to give informal instruction and tips where required. With miles and miles of glittering snow, and towers of stalagmite jutting rock reflecting pink in the sunlight, you’d be right in acknowledging that although there are many beautiful places in the world, there are few that genuinely take your breath away.
Welcome to the Dolomites.
The Dolomiti Superski covers 12 ski areas, each a resort in its own right, with over 1200kms of linked piste. Each area has its own distinct flavour and charm; Stylish Cortina, with it’s steep slopes and Olympic history, exclusive and elegant Alta Badia, known for its Michelin starred hotels and on slope guzzling gastro extravanganzas, fast and furious Kronplatz, with its long wide descents and the famous Sylvester Black run into the local town, the James Bond Lift at Lagazuoi and its horse drawn ski tow, or the open and empty slopes of off piste heaven at Passo San Pellegrino.
Wherever you go in the Dolomites, you’ll find some common denominators; the sun shines for over 300 days a year. The mountain huts are gorgeously conceived, serving finest Italian fare and wines for decent prices, and the opportunity to plonk yourself down in a deck chair, snuggly blanket included.
And the pistes? Ah, the pistes! Immaculately corded groomed perfection. Everywhere, from cruisey blues to world cup blacks.
WoW SkiTours have also chosen to operate, in a brand new venture for season 2026, in the famous 4 Vallees ski area in Switzerland. Set in the delightful little town of peaceful Nendaz, which shares its most famous slopes with the glitzy Verbier, the venue was chosen to take advantage of the same sublime snow conditions and more varied terrain with none of the pretence and much less expense!!
WoW Nendaz weeks are a different product entirely and focus on Performance camps, aimed at ski instruction and training for those looking to improve and enhance their ski technique. The weeks aim to create an awareness of the physics of skiing, of HOW we move on our skis, and the techniques we must employ to create efficient balance regardless of terrain. Exercises and drills will be given to work on differing parts of ‘the turn’, explanations will be precise, video analysis and critiques will be part of the week’s development. All the instructors are highly trained and qualified from varying ski formation associations (BASI, IASI, PSIE) and many are multilingual.
Whichever WoW week you choose, you’ll be part of a gang of Wonderful Solo Women, providing a platform of empathy, banter and support.
It’s a great opportunity to make friends for life, share stories and laughter. Each week includes private transfers from either Venice Marco Polo/Treviso or Geneva Airports, single occupancy of a comfort double room (no sharing!!!!!) in a 3 or 4* hotel close to the lifts, half board in a beautiful restaurant, discounted ski hire, and either fully guiding / personalised ski instruction.
Oh! And a barrel load of laughter! Bring a sense of humour!!
