Off-piste dangers and rewards : changing the mindset of a new generation of skiers

Earlier this year, I was getting off a packed ski lift in the French resort of Tignes when I had one of those moments when I accepted that what had once appealed to me in downhill skiing was perhaps now not so. I‘d been wearing a helmet-mounted GoPro camera which had become lodged in the restraining … Read more

Swiss political posters  - the contentious images that frighten and offend – but not enough to remove them

Updated February 28, 2016 The people of Switzerland have once again been to the polls to exercise their citizen power over four very different issues. This time they cast their votes over a right-wing initiative to deport convicted foreigners, a challenge from environmentalists opposed to a second Gotthard road tunnel, a proposal to introduce tax … Read more