It’s been announced that a Chinese indoor ski centre that was largely completed several years ago but until now has failed to open, will now do so June 28, 2025. Darongshan Indoor Ski Resort is situated in the Gaoshan Dadong Scenic Area of Darongshan National Forest Park in Guangxi province. The resort is 40 kilometers or an hour’s drive away

A spectacular new water park has opened as part of the huge building that houses the Shanghai L+SNOW Indoor Skiing Theme Resort. The new Shanghai Yaoxue Water World opens on May 31st and is reported to be the city’s first new large-scale water park to open in more than a decade. The water park is promoting itself as “China’s first

A new indoor snow centre has opened in Malaysia, very close to the island nation of Singapore. SnowLand JB in Johor Bahru has opened on the Ground Floor of Mall of Medini just 30 minutes across the causeway from Singapore. The new centre features ice slides, snow sculptures and real snow falling from its roof. “SnowLand isn’t just for photo

Without any natural snow-covered mountains or slopes in Egypt for Antwan “Tony” Saad to train on, he found Ski Egypt, Africa’s first Indoor Ski Resort and Snow Park. Leading up to the World Winter Games 2025 in Turin, Italy, Tony worked at his craft, training at Ski Egypt as he prepared for competition in Alpine Skiing. The discipline and mental

Adventurer Mathias Ekornås has set a new world record by ice climbing 7760 vertical metres in under 24 hours. Climber Mathias Ekornås, who is aiming to climb the 7 highest mountains on each continent in under 24 hours, has set a new ice-climbing world record, 7,760 vertical metres in under 24 hours. The achievement meant he had to climb the

The Chinese city of Wuhan in the country’s Hubei province has gone from being world famous as the place where the COVID-19 pandemic (probably) began in late 2019, to less well known as the city with more indoor snow centres than any other. With two indoor snow centre’s opening last year, including the world’s third-largest to date, Wuhan is now

Construction of a new indoor snow centre for Australia, which looks set to be one of the world’s largest, is about to begin, according to a January report in Sydney’s edition of Time Out. Winter Sports World was first announced in 2018 when it had a $200m AUD price tag, seven years  later, having overcome the various planning and other

Long standing plans to build an indoor snow slope in a giant new shopping mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia appear to be back in play. When first announced in 2016 the Mall Of Saudi’s ski slope (original design pictured above) was promoted as going to be the ‘longest indoors in the world’ (thus more than 640 metres long).  The complex

Online searches for indoor ski resorts spiked 170 percent year-over-year in December, according to data from the country that now has around 60 indoor snow centres. China continues to push ahead with a fast-growing winter sports industry, three years after the Beijing Winter Olympics. It is already home to the world’s five largest indoor snow centres, with more, including several