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The Espace Killy

The ski area of Val d'Isère and Tignes also known as the Espace Killy, is one of the most extensive ski areas in Europe.

For your Val d'Isère ski holiday the resort has everything, with terrain to suit all standards of skiers and boarders, no matter how basic or extreme their abilities.

There are 97 lifts, 300 kms of groomed runs, two snowboard parks and two glaciers, as well as a vast expanse of off piste. The well linked, groomed and varied pistes deserve their world class reputation.

Beginners or experts alike will clock up more skiing time here in a week than anywhere else on the continent. For novices and intermediates, there are huge open bowls, gently winding trails and high altitude motorways to cruise. For the more experienced, there are vast off-piste playgrounds, littered with steeps, shoots, gullies, cliffs and trees.

With glacier skiing at up to 3,455 metres, snow is always guaranteed. For snowboarders this area is heaven. 
It's no wonder that the World Championships were held here for the 2008/2009 season.

The ski area streches from Tignes les Brévières at one end, to le Fornet many miles away at the other end. Competent skiers can comfortably ski there and back in a day and even have time for lunch on the way! The longest run is la Sache, an awesome black run stretching for 6 miles!

The area was named after Jean-Claude Killy, three times French Olympic gold medallist and two times World Champion. From 1973 to 1987, he was married to French actress Danièle Gaubert, until her death from cancer. Together they had a daughter, Emilie; he also adopted her two children from her first marriage to Rhadamés Trujillo, the son of Rafael Trujillo, the assassinated dictator of the Dominican Republic. Gaubert and Trujillo were divorced in 1968 and later that year she met Killy.