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Resort Height: 1550m

Designed in the '60s by the famous modernist architect Le Corbusier and named after him, Le Corbier started life as one of those medium sized 3rd generation resorts with 75kms of good skiing. Now though the pass includes La Toussuire, St Sorlin d'Arves and St Colomban, and is one of the biggest ski areas in the World at a whopping 310kms!

The snow record is excellent. The village is at 1550m, the top station is at 2600m, there's plenty of snow cannons and it mostly faces the right way. The main thing about any purpose-built resort is the quality of the skiing and none of these three areas disappoint. The Le Corbier part has exceptional learning slopes, and early intermediates have plenty of easy blues on good snow. Keen intermediates can enjoy enormous runs giving dramatic views and an enjoyable sense of journey. Advanced skiers revel in the huge mileage.This is an ambitious and rapidly-developing ski area with lifts added every year. Le Corbier has recently added a fast 6 man chair direct from the foot of the resort right to the top, where there's a nursery area in wonderful snow and the link to St Sorlin.

La Toussuire is slightly more challenging, and there's about 50kms of great skiing here in an enormous bowl. The route back is deliberately kept easy but beginners can take the chair lift if they wish and there's a bus service.

There's plenty of skiing immediately available to satisfy all standards but the lift pass includes picturesque St Sorlin d'Arves and St Colomban making a total of 310kms. The skiing is fabulous here. It's more varied and challenging, and is highly rated by advanced and expert skiers.No-one could describe Le Corbier as an eyeful of classic chocolate box charm. No doubt Le Corbusier had something else in mind. It's uncompromising, and stark, and enjoys an arrestingly dramatic setting. It's also practical and convenient and works really well. Vehicles park outside the traffic-free village which curves around the foot of the mountain so that the nursery slopes run right up to the wooden terrace. It's easy to use, well equipped and noticeably friendly. Most of the shops and cafés in the piste-front gallery have been run by the same families since the resort opened.

Beginners
Intermediate


Advanced


Snowboarding


Children


Resort Statistics

• Highest Lift: 2600m
• Km of Piste: 310km
• Longest Run: 2.9km
• Cross Country Trails: n/a
• Beginner Slopes: n/a
• Intermediate Slopes: n/a
• Advanced Slopes: n/a
• Mtn Restaurants: 6
• Lifts: 76
• Pass Photo Required: n/a

Piste Map for Le corbier

Accommodation in Le corbier

• Clubhotel Le Mont Corbier - 2 star, half board

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