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Chamonix Video Report: 25th January 2008

Kandahar Course Les Houches

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Jonathan talks about the World Cup Downhill and Super Combined, which will be held in the Chamonix Valley this weekend. Course officials have declared the Verte des Houches to be in near perfect condition for racing and snow in the rest of the valley is great as well.

Jonathan Trigell is the author of the multi award winning book Boy A - recently dramatised by Channel 4 - 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

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