The event venue
Val d'Isère, a village for skiing since 1934
Val d'Isère is located at an altitude of 1 850 m at the far end of the Tarentaise valley in Savoy, a valley famous the world over as home to the many prestigious ski resorts that hosted the XVI Albertville Winter Olympic Games in 1992.
Val d'Isère, gateway to the Vanoise National Park and bordering on the Grand Paradis Park, discovered its vocation as a ski resort in 1934 inspired by a handful of passionate pioneers including Charles Diebold and Nicolas Bazile who was Mayor at that time. Doted with a perfectly adapted natural alpine setting, the small village of stone and wood dwellings grew into one of the world's skiing Mecca's for on and off-piste. Meanwhile some of the local boys and girls were becoming living legends of the skiing world in their own right; Oreiller, the Goitschel sisters, Killy, Bianchi, Jacquemod and Bozzetto on his snowboard. They all trained with the Val d'Isère ski club and some giving performing brilliantly on the slopes of the "Critérium de la Première Neige", opening stage of the World Cup circuit since 1955.
Today the Espace Killy is an amalgam of the Val d'Isère and Tignes domains offering over 300km of slopes dominated by the Pissaillas and Grande Motte glaciers, which also offer skiing during the summer months.
