After a week of powder and good times, there’s no better way to impress your friends and family back home than with the world’s perfect selfie. Whether at Austria’s Zillertal Arena or down in the 3 Vallées in France, your ski holiday is a time to make memories you will cherish forever. But how exactly do you go about upstaging the millions of selfies already on Instagram? Luckily for you, technology is getting better every day. From personalized videos to giant selfies, discover a few new inventions that are revolutionizing the way we think of selfies!
The Skicircus at Saalbach offers snapshot photopoints at Schattberg X-Press, Reiterkogel, Zwölferkogel, Kohlmais, Westgipfel and Kohlmais, which you can download at saalbach.me. Saalbach also offers Skiline technology, which allows you to do everything from tracking your altitude change over the day to measuring your top speed. Even better, you can take your very own slalom skimovie! It’s as easy as registering your skipass number at the start of the slalom course, then going online with the same number to retrieve your video. Share your amazing show of skills – or your spectacular wipeouts – with your friends on social media!
Some skiers pose at Kohlmais (c) Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn
Les 3 Vallées
is the world’s largest ski area, which means great photo ops, right? Or not?! We all know the frustration of trying to fit your face into that magical background without covering it all up! Well, Les 3 Vallées in France has a solution:
giant selfies! With the “3 Vallées Selfie,” shoot your most winning smile at a camera located 200m away. Within minutes, you’ll receive the world’s best selfie on your phone, a panoramic view of tiny you in the mountains, which zooms in as far as you like to show your beautiful face up close!
The Harakiri piste at Mayrhofen ski resort reaches a gradient of up to 78% and has gained a reputation for being the steepest slope experience in Austria. As a survivor of this infamous piste, you deserve to go down in history! There is a free photoshoot on the Harakiri every Friday from 1-3pm and the pictures are uploaded to the Mayrhofen website, where you can check out your perfect technique or your epic bails. For proof of your amazing feats, buy a souvenir shirt at the Mayrhofen gift shop.
A brave skier attempts the Harakiri (c) Mayrhofen
If you’re looking for that extra special something, why not take a picture with a giant yellow elephant at Gerlos? Also operated by Skiline, this camera in the Zillertal Arena offers fantastic selfies which you can download free of charge later by entering your lift ticket number into the Skiline website.
(c) Zillertal Arena
Visit the Frozen Forest-themed Ice Camp at the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier, which offers breathtaking views from three huge igloos installed at an altitude of 2600m above sea level. The Ice Camp was designed by Max Seibald, a Tyrolean artist, and it is open until mid-April. Sponsored by Audi quattro, the Ice Camp at the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier offers a free photopoint next to its new Audi Q2 model. While you're there, taste some exclusive Pure Glacier Vodka at the Ice Bar and relax on the sun deck.
Posing with the new Audi Q2 at the Ice Camp (c) Kitzsteinhorn Glacier
There are loads of places to take photos in the Alps, and it's nice to create some unforgettable memories. Where's your favourite photopoint?
After a week of powder and good times, there’s no better way to impress your friends and family back home than with the world’s perfect selfie. Whether at Austria’s Zillertal Arena or down in the 3 Vallées in France, your ski holiday is a time to make memories you will cherish forever. But how exactly do you go about upstaging the millions of selfies already on Instagram? Luckily for you, technology is getting better every day. From personalized videos to giant selfies, discover a few new inventions that are revolutionizing the way we think of selfies!
The Skicircus at Saalbach offers snapshot photopoints at Schattberg X-Press, Reiterkogel, Zwölferkogel, Kohlmais, Westgipfel and Kohlmais, which you can download at saalbach.me. Saalbach also offers Skiline technology, which allows you to do everything from tracking your altitude change over the day to measuring your top speed. Even better, you can take your very own slalom skimovie! It’s as easy as registering your skipass number at the start of the slalom course, then going online with the same number to retrieve your video. Share your amazing show of skills – or your spectacular wipeouts – with your friends on social media!
Some skiers pose at Kohlmais (c) Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn
Les 3 Vallées
is the world’s largest ski area, which means great photo ops, right? Or not?! We all know the frustration of trying to fit your face into that magical background without covering it all up! Well, Les 3 Vallées in France has a solution:
giant selfies! With the “3 Vallées Selfie,” shoot your most winning smile at a camera located 200m away. Within minutes, you’ll receive the world’s best selfie on your phone, a panoramic view of tiny you in the mountains, which zooms in as far as you like to show your beautiful face up close!
The Harakiri piste at Mayrhofen ski resort reaches a gradient of up to 78% and has gained a reputation for being the steepest slope experience in Austria. As a survivor of this infamous piste, you deserve to go down in history! There is a free photoshoot on the Harakiri every Friday from 1-3pm and the pictures are uploaded to the Mayrhofen website, where you can check out your perfect technique or your epic bails. For proof of your amazing feats, buy a souvenir shirt at the Mayrhofen gift shop.
A brave skier attempts the Harakiri (c) Mayrhofen
If you’re looking for that extra special something, why not take a picture with a giant yellow elephant at Gerlos? Also operated by Skiline, this camera in the Zillertal Arena offers fantastic selfies which you can download free of charge later by entering your lift ticket number into the Skiline website.
(c) Zillertal Arena
Visit the Frozen Forest-themed Ice Camp at the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier, which offers breathtaking views from three huge igloos installed at an altitude of 2600m above sea level. The Ice Camp was designed by Max Seibald, a Tyrolean artist, and it is open until mid-April. Sponsored by Audi quattro, the Ice Camp at the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier offers a free photopoint next to its new Audi Q2 model. While you're there, taste some exclusive Pure Glacier Vodka at the Ice Bar and relax on the sun deck.
Posing with the new Audi Q2 at the Ice Camp (c) Kitzsteinhorn Glacier
There are loads of places to take photos in the Alps, and it's nice to create some unforgettable memories. Where's your favourite photopoint?
Born and raised in the ski paradise of Vancouver, Canada, I learned to ski before I can remember, balancing precariously on my parents’ skis as they sailed down the hill. I started snowboarding in my teens and am now delighted to be exploring everything Europe’s ski scene has to offer!
