Advanced Ski Areas in Les 2 Alpes
Discover the top Les 2 Alpes advanced skiing
Les Deux Alpes is great for advanced skiers and snowboarders with a fantastic range of challenging pistes.
It's often described as an 'upside-down' resort because the cruisy glacier blues are found at the top of the mountain, and the steeper more difficult faces are lower down.
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Advanced areas in Les Deux Alpes
Private Ski Lessons & Instructors in Les 2 Alpes
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Private ski lessons
This ski school connects snow sports enthusiasts of all abilities with expert ski and snowboard instructors across Europe’s top resorts. With thousands of top-rated, verified instructors to choose from, their private lessons offer a flexible and personalised learning experience.
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Private ski lessons
This ski and snowboard school has gained a phenomenal reputation since it was established in Les Deux Alpes.
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Private ski lessons
Established in 1991, this ski and snowboard school was one of the first British-run ski schools in France. Their team is known for going the extra mile, offering excellent customer service and delivering outstanding lessons and guiding.
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Private ski lessons
Discover the Les 2 Alpes ski area with one of the most renowned ski schools in the world.
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Private ski lessons
Learn to ski in English or French with a kind, caring and professional, female ski instructor.
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Private ski lessons
The European Ski and Snowboard School is a well-established independent ski school in the heart of Les Deux Alpes. Its name has become synonymous with a quality service that aims to meet and exceed your expectations.
Beginner areas in Les Deux Alpes
Ski School Lessons in Les 2 Alpes
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Private ski lessons
This ski school connects snow sports enthusiasts of all abilities with expert ski and snowboard instructors across Europe’s top resorts. With thousands of top-rated, verified instructors to choose from, their private lessons offer a flexible and personalised learning experience.
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Group ski lessons
Discover the Les 2 Alpes ski area with one of the most renowned ski school in the world.
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Group ski lessons
This ski school offers group ski lessons for both children and adults, catering to all ability levels. Their group lessons provide a great and affordable way to improve your skiing in a safe, social and supportive environment.
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Private ski lessons
Established in 1991, this ski and snowboard school was one of the first British-run ski schools in France. Their team is known for going the extra mile, offering excellent customer service and delivering outstanding lessons and guiding.
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Group ski lessons
This ski and snowboard school was first set up in Les Deux Alpes in 2013 and has gained a phenomenal reputation (just have a look at the reviews).
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Private ski lessons
Learn to ski in English or French with a kind, caring and professional, female ski instructor.
Beginner ski hire
Ski Hire in Les 2 Alpes
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Schuss Sport
At this boutique you can get your ski hire and outdoor equipment in time to catch the first lifts.
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Hibernatus
Want to rent skis or snowboards in Les 2 Alpes? Just visit the Skiset Hibernatus store!
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Village 1800
Ski and snowboard Hire in the Village 1800 area near the Village lift. Save time and money by booking online with Intersport. Have your equipment ready to pick up as soon as you arrive and hit the slopes straight away!
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SL Sports
This rental store is located is within the entertainment centre where the bowling and fitness club are. It is on the first floor and is just 30m from the ESF Ski School. Samuel and his team of technical staff will welcome you, and share their knowledge with you.
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Dode Sports
This family owned ski and snowboard rental shop is located at the foot of the ski slopes, next to the tourist office and only 50 metres from the main lift 'Le Jandri Express'.
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Camp d'Base
Book your ski and snowboard equipment online with Camp d'Base, taking all the hassle out of renting, plus you could save up to 50%!
Beginner ski lessons
Ski School Lessons in Les 2 Alpes
See all Ski School Lessons in Les 2 Alpes-
Private ski lessons
This ski school connects snow sports enthusiasts of all abilities with expert ski and snowboard instructors across Europe’s top resorts. With thousands of top-rated, verified instructors to choose from, their private lessons offer a flexible and personalised learning experience.
-
Group ski lessons
Discover the Les 2 Alpes ski area with one of the most renowned ski school in the world.
-
Group ski lessons
This ski school offers group ski lessons for both children and adults, catering to all ability levels. Their group lessons provide a great and affordable way to improve your skiing in a safe, social and supportive environment.
-
Private ski lessons
Established in 1991, this ski and snowboard school was one of the first British-run ski schools in France. Their team is known for going the extra mile, offering excellent customer service and delivering outstanding lessons and guiding.
-
Group ski lessons
This ski and snowboard school was first set up in Les Deux Alpes in 2013 and has gained a phenomenal reputation (just have a look at the reviews).
-
Private ski lessons
Learn to ski in English or French with a kind, caring and professional, female ski instructor.
Off-piste areas in Les Deux Alpes
Mountain Guides Les 2 Alpes
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ESF off-piste mountain guides
This ski school offers off-piste lessons in Les 2 Alpes for those looking to take their skiing or snowboarding to the next level.
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Firstrax Mountain Guides
With over 10 years of experience, these mountain guides offer freeriding in the best powder spots of Les Deux Alpes and La Grave.
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ESI St Christophe ski guides
This company has been running in Les Deux Alpes from 1986 and as well as providing ski and snowboard lessons, they also offer off-piste guiding.
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European Ski & Snowboard School ski guides
Discover the incredible off-piste in Les Deux Alpes with the European Ski & Snowboard School! This is for skiers who want to get on and ski off-piste without standing around and talking about it too much.
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Ski Hire in Les 2 Alpes
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Schuss Sport
At this boutique you can get your ski hire and outdoor equipment in time to catch the first lifts.
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Hibernatus
Want to rent skis or snowboards in Les 2 Alpes? Just visit the Skiset Hibernatus store!
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Village 1800
Ski and snowboard Hire in the Village 1800 area near the Village lift. Save time and money by booking online with Intersport. Have your equipment ready to pick up as soon as you arrive and hit the slopes straight away!
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SL Sports
This rental store is located is within the entertainment centre where the bowling and fitness club are. It is on the first floor and is just 30m from the ESF Ski School. Samuel and his team of technical staff will welcome you, and share their knowledge with you.
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Dode Sports
This family owned ski and snowboard rental shop is located at the foot of the ski slopes, next to the tourist office and only 50 metres from the main lift 'Le Jandri Express'.
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Camp d'Base
Book your ski and snowboard equipment online with Camp d'Base, taking all the hassle out of renting, plus you could save up to 50%!
More inspiration...
Take a look at this year's ski pass prices and find your way around with piste maps for Les 2 Alpes.

Straight to the top
As soon as you get here you'll want to head straight to the top of the mountain, so take the Jandri Express 1 and 2 followed by the Puy Salié T-bar.
Signal 3
One of the steepest reds that Les Deux Alpes has to offer, and a great warm up run which starts easy and steadily gets steeper.
Beginning at the glacier (3,200m) take the furthest right of all the pistes to experience a vertical drop of 250m. It is wide and very rarely in bad condition, though can be icy due to the altitude. The piste's steepness eases off near the bottom, where you can turn right and join Signal 1 piste.
The Glacier runs
Red pistes that start gently.
The left-hand Glacier 6 is the easiest with a short steep section leading to Jandri 4.
The most impressive option is to continue straight on Glacier 8, underneath the Glacier chairlift, but this piste can be quite busy, and moguls do develop in the afternoon.
Glacier 5 is a red and whilst it is as steep as most blacks it's intensity is short-lived.
You'll end up taking Glacier 1 (blue) for a while before ending up on Glacier 8, which has a right turn onto Pierre Grosse 1. This is another black, very steep but usually well-groomed with good snow.
You could take Pierre Grosse 2, which leaves the aforementioned red run 100m earlier, it is marked but be aware it is left unpisted. Both runs arrive at the Fée 1 blue where you continue on a flat until you reach the Fée chairlift.

Now you're in the Fée sector
La Fée valley is one of the best areas to enjoy some of the most scenic red and black pistes all day long.
Currently, the quickest way to access these is to follow the Jandri 3 piste from La Toura as far as the Sautet chair. From here you can take the Fée 4 and 5 reds, or the steep and icy Fée 6 black back to the La Fée high-speed six-person chair.
The start of Fée 4 is a great place for going fast whilst Fée 5 is often the place to find the moguls.
If you like un-pisted itineraries, Fée 7 and Thuit 5 are well worth doing too. Keep doing laps of the Fée chairlift as you tick off these routes.

Heading down
When you have had your fill of the Fée area, follow the Thuit 1 blue into the Thuit bowl and take the three-man Thuit chairlift.
At the top, head left for the Bellecombes chairlift and take a good look at your next challenge, the Bellecombes 6 black, as you ride up above it.
Formerly known as the Grand Couloir, this is long, steep and usually bumpy. Do not ski this run if it is closed, as it is threatened by avalanches from the Rachas faces above.
At the bottom, take the Bellecombes chair again and this time head right along the reds to the Super Diable 1 black. This is one of the longest blacks in the resort and the lower section is consistently steep and often bumpy. The run plunges 800m from the mountain into the valley.
At the end of the day you can start in the late sunshine on the west-facing slopes and finish in the village where dusk has already fallen. Be sure to ski this well to impress the crowds on the terrace of the Diable au Coeur, where we recommend stopping for lunch.
After which, if you want to go back up for more, the Diable 2 unpisted itinerary is waiting for you.

Back to where you began
Getting back to resort there are three routes down when conditions are good - the Valentin, Diable 1 and Vallons du Diable.
Valentin will take you back to the Mont de Lans part of Les Deux Alpes. It is snow sure, due to snow cannon on both sides the whole way down, and a massive snow making machine at the top pumps out a vast amount of snow making it even steeper. With a vertical drop of 300m, it's one of the fastest pistes Les Deux Alpes has to offer; very steep and very wide, the best time to ski it is early in the morning when it's deserted.
Le Diable route will take you to the Venosc part of Les Deux Alpes. It's the steepest and longest black run in Les Deux Alpes, running from 2,400m down to an altitude of 1,600m. The top is wide and rolling, steep but not as steep as the lower section.
The Vallons du Diable is a good, long, interesting red to the Venosc end of the resort, but unfortunately the snow cover is often poor on the lower south-facing section. A nice option is to do the top section of the Vallons du Diable then cut right onto a cat-track then out onto the bottom half of the Diable 1, giving the best bits of both pistes.