80: St Anton, 007, Beijing 2022 & How To Choose Ski Boots

We have lots of ski-related chat in this episode, including a St Anton update, how to find the right ski boot for you, Graham Bell on Beijing 2022, the latest update on Covid rules and whether it's possible to take all your holidays flight free.

Iain was joined by Andy Butterworth from Kaluma Travel, first time guest Helen Coffey, travel editor at The Independent, as well as regulars Katie Crowe from Battleface Travel Insurance and equipment expert Al Morgan.

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SHOW NOTES

‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ was filmed in Murren, Switzerland

The Piz Gloria revolving restaurant was the location for Blofeld's base in 1969

Find out more about James Bond in Switzerland

 Listen to our special episode focussing on the Inferno downhill race

Andy hopes to ski in Hintertux, following their fresh snow last week

https://twitter.com/Chaletline/status/1446030206603571201

 Helen skied in Sierra Nevada

 Iain was joined by Katie Crowe from Battleface Travel Insurance 

 There is no pre-return test required for double vaccinated travellers from 04 October

 The Day 2 PCR test will be replaced by a Lateral Flow test by the end of this month

 Travel to the USA should start again soon

 It looks like the Pass Sanitaire will not be required to ski in France this winter

 The situation for children in Austria is less clear

 Find out about 'Trav-min' 

Helen recently took a mega-trip to Morocco by train, having signed the Flight Free UK pledge

 Iain is a signatory to Tourism Declares and founded the Ski Flight Free campaign

Find out about The Independent's policy on travel coverage

 Google are now including carbon emissions totals for flights:

 https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1446387406618386445

Ruka ski resort is in Finland

Listen to our Travelski interview in Episode 79

Andy is based in St Anton

Kaluma Ski are facing some challenges of recruiting post-Brexit 

Iain hosted the Olympics sessions at the recent Ski Launch event in London. Please let us know if you’d like to hear more of this by emailing me at [email protected]

Non-vaccinated athletes will have to quarantine for 21 days to compete at Beijing

Listen to our Ski Podcast Special with Jon-Allan Butterworth about his conversion to snowboarding and his time on The Jump

The Jump was our lead story in Episode 1 of The Ski Podcast four years ago in 2017

Beth Tweddle is sueing the show. 

Read and watch more equipment reviews from Al Morgan at SkiKitInfo.com

Al mentioned the Lange XT3 Tour ski boot

I spoke to author Kimberley Kay about her new book: Ski A-Z: An Illustrated Guide to Skiing 

Alex Irwin reported from Courchevel on the damaged Saulire cable car

https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1446031205976186886

Reviews

Joe McHugh: "Thanks Ian for keeping the skiing vibe on life-support during Covid times"

Inside Morzine: "Well worth a listen.. Iain’s #podcast are ALWAYS essential listening"

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Thanks also to Mike Greenland, who pointed out Lauterbrunnen is part of Jungfrau (I was confusing it with Adelboden)

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