Net Gains: It's all downhill from here www.1ski.com

Maxton Walker Mwalker@independent.co.uk
Friday 25 September 1998 18:02 EDT
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Emap, the publisher, has updated its skiing site with new information on Europe and North America. The site's claim that skiing is no longer a seasonal past-time, but an all-year-round one is rather strained, but it does hope to provide extremely up-to-date price and availability information for a wide number of resorts.

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