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Chamonix Video Report: 4th April 2008

Panoramique Lift

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Jonathan is floating above the Vallée Blanche in the Panoramique lift, which has opened early this year. The conditions in the Valley are great after several small snow falls in the last week. There are now six meters of snow at the top of Grands Montets.

Jonathan Trigell is the author of the novel Boy A winner of The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Waverton Award and The World Book Day Prize 2008, which was recently dramatised by Channel 4. He also wrote the first serious novel about winter sports: Cham. "Trigell’s ski-bum hedonism does for extreme winter sports what Alex Garland’s The Beach did for backpacking" - The Financial Times

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