The new largest indoor ski resort in the region, Zhengding Bonski, the latest to carry the Bonski name, has had a soft opening ahead of its full official opening this Sunday July 6th. Located in Zhengding county, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, about 250km from the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, the centre covers 30,000-square-metres and features beginner and intermediate gradient slopes

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the Norwegian downhill ski racing superstar has been spotted back on snow, training indoor after a horrific crash in the Lauberhorn Downhill at Wengen last year led to him being unable to race the rest of the 23=24 season. Further post-accident complications led to him missing the 24-25 season too. Kilde has been back on snow training

Snowplanet, located in Silverdale on Auckland’s North Shore in New Zealand is celebrating 20 years in business Over those two decades the centre says 2.6 million visitors have been through its doors. Snowplanet, which is both the most southerly and largest of the few indoor ski fields in the Southern Hemisphere, provides year round access to skiing, snowboarding, and snow

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