This program is open to students 11 - 15 years old.
This is a physically demanding program. Activities include: Via Ferrata, rock climbing, canyoning, mountain biking, rafting, horseback riding and more.
Students live and participate in all activities with other French teens!
Les Deux Alpes is a ski resort area in the French Isère département. The town sits at 1650m (5,413 ft.) and lifts run to 3600m (11,811 ft.). It has the largest skiable glacier in Europe and is France's second oldest ski resort behind Chamonix, where the largest mountain in western Europe.
The name "two Alps" does not refer to the two mountains that the resort encompasses but rather the two villages of Venosc and Mont De Lans that sit at either end of the north-south plateau on which the resort was built.
The glacier enables year-round skiing. A funicular railway tunneled under the ice transports skiers and, in summer, tourists to 3450 m (11,319 fr.), from where panoramic views can be seen of the surroundings, including Mont Blanc, some 100 km (62 miles) distant, L'Alpe d'Huez and the Plateau de Vercors above Grenoble.
Les deux alps also boasts the use of ęcole du ski français, which is the largest ski-school in France.
In terms of pistes the resort has been termed "upside-down", as the lower slopes down to the resort are steeper and more challenging than the higher ski areas, including the wide and forgiving glacier runs. Less advanced skiers either take a gondola down to the resort or follow a lengthy, gentle but narrow, track on the path of the access road. A wide area at the very bottom by the town is given over to nursery slopes.
Photos
1.Mountain biking, Alps
2.Via Ferrata
3.Rock climbing
About the program
Alps Sports Camp
dates June 28 - July 13
location Les 2 Alpes, France
Cost $2500.00 plus airfare