Chamonix Video Report: 17th February 2008
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Half term has hit town, but Jonathan has a top tip for avoiding the queues. He's up at le Tour and the on piste conditions are pretty excellent, although since it hasn't snowed for a while it's not all perfect off-piste.
Jonathan Trigell is the author of the multi award winning book Boy A - recently dramatised by Channel 4 and now shortlisted as World Book Day’s Book To Talk About 2008 - and 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