Podcasts about Norway

This week we're joined by legendary composer Yuzo Koshiro, recorded live at Retromessa in Norway, for the story behind the iconic Streets of Rage soundtracks. From the club music that inspired those unforgettable beats to getting the most out of the Mega Drive, Yuzo shares how he helped shape the sound of Sega—and reveals his role designing moves and voicing characters in Streets of Rage 2! Plus, we talk Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic and his return to Mega Drive development with Earthion.Plus, Modern Vintage Gamer joins us for the news!MVG: https://www.youtube.com/@ModernVintageGamer/videosContents:00:00 – The Week's Retro News Stories50:27 – Yuzo Koshiro InterviewPlease visit our amazing sponsors and help to support the show:Bitmap Books – https://www.bitmapbooks.comGo to https://surfshark.com/retrohour or use code RETROHOUR at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark!Play Expo Blackpool: https://www.playexpoblackpool.com/Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com for all your PCB needsWe need your help to ensure the future of the podcast, if you'd like to help us with running costs, equipment and hosting, please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://theretrohour.com/support/https://www.patreon.com/retrohourJoin our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GQw8qp8Website: http://theretrohour.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/X: https://twitter.com/retrohourukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/retrohouruk/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theretrohour.comTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theretrohourShow notesC64 and Spectrum handhelds delayed: https://lnk.ua/Y92W4t1J7Super Mario 64 SNES port: https://lnk.ua/IzOyma94qAmiga Addams Family backgrounds edition: https://lnk.ua/guzIbbISRGoldenEye 007 goes third-person: https://lnk.ua/mPTCUlTqmBinky launches on C64: https://lnk.ua/My9oxsebGLost SNES Railroad Tycoon footage: https://lnk.ua/hwttaGmyJReal coin slot for emulators: https://lnk.ua/fxCnlQe5C

To hear the Ingebrigtsen conversation in this podcast, and every Applied show, become a Supporter. It costs about the price of a coffee a month (or a gel), and also comes with ad-free listening and our Discourse community!Our Applied shows are normally exclusive to our Supporters. However, the 2026 track and field season has been so good, and given us so many threads to follow, that we've opened up the first part of this one to everyone! The Guardian's Sean Ingle joins us to look back on a year of 17 world records, from Sabastian Sawe's sub-two hour marathon and Josh Kerr's mile record to 17-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus becoming the youngest ever world champion, and a women's 800m that kept on giving all summer. Sean gives us his inside view on the Ultimate Championships, why World Athletics plans a world championships every year after 2030, why London lost out to Nairobi, why a doping-tainted marathon world record still stands, the brand wars behind the scenes, and whether a skin suit could ever be worth 2.5% over 800m.Then, exclusively for our Supporters, the show becomes a journey into the mind of one of sport's most fascinating characters. Sean spent a day with Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen at his home in Norway, and shares what he learned about his upbringing (serious training from the age of seven), how his talent was shaped, his relationship with running, and the principles that drive him, from 180km weeks and no days off, to his rivalry with Kerr.LinksThe article on the Ingebrigtsen brothers that we discuss in our exclusive segment (full article available to members on Discourse)Sean's two pieces on Jakob Ingebrigtsen. First, at home with Jakob and "obsession" he feedsAnd the second instalment - 10 lessons from one of the world's most beguiling athletesEpstein's Sports Gene - the best book on nurturing talent (and nature) you'll ever readThe paper that comes up in Sean's Talent discussion, showing that "successful juniors and successful seniors are largely two disparate populations" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Harry discusses the injury concerns surrounding Arsenal players, particularly focusing on Christos Tzolis and his hamstring injury sustained during international duty. He also touches on Martin Odegaard's ability to get through 90 minutes for Norway and the implications of these injuries on Arsenal's squad depth. The conversation then shifts to the ongoing Manchester City case, exploring the latest developments and the potential ramifications for the club. 00:00 Injury Concerns for Arsenal Players 14:26 Manchester City Case Updates To sign up as a Patreon, get additional episodes, ad-free episodes and become a part of our discord server, click the link below: https://patreon.com/thechroniclesofagooner?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Enter the discount code 'SUMMER' for 50% off your first month! Ready to have an AI that can tackle real work? Try Claude Cowork today — Claude.ai/TCOAG Listen to 'The Rise of Pafos FC' on Apple podcasts or Spotify: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rise-of-pafos-fc-with-harry-symeou/id1334407316?i=1000746012823 #arsenal #premierleague #news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I sit down with Sophie Maria Weber, young musicologist from Halle and winner of the Telemann-Forschungspreis, to talk about her research on Georg Michael Telemann — the grandson of Georg Philipp Telemann — and his fifty years working at the Riga Cathedral.https://telemann.de/aktuelles/telemann-forschungspreis-wird-erstmals-verliehenWe dig into the adaptations Georg Michael made to his grandfather's works (spoiler: he rewrote them directly onto the originals, fully convinced he was improving them), his reportedly prickly personality, and the pupils who admitted they learned little in his lectures, mostly because he loved telling stories about his own life instead. By the end, we somehow connect it all back to a topic from my previous episode with Francesco Corti, tying together questions of heritage and copyright across the centuries.Recorded from a hotel room in Norway, mid-tour, because the podcast must go on!

1767 ARABIACONTENTS-THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 9-30-2026Oil Prices Defy Market ReportsMichael Bernstam examines a major disconnect between oil reporting and market conditions, where crude oil benchmark prices remain extremely high at $103.50 per barrel despite reports that most Middle Eastern oil is back on the market. Up to 17.1 million barrels per day are moving via alternative routes, such as the Omani route and Saudipipelines, protected by the U.S. Navy. Meanwhile, global oil reserves were depleted by 57 million barrels, and China has resumed imports to refill its reserves. Furthermore, European countries like Germany are seeking energy partnerships with Kazakhstan to bypass Russian political and economic dependence. (1)Hijack Attempt Aboard FlyDubai FlightBill Roggio analyzes an incident aboard a FlyDubai flight bound for Tel Aviv where a co-pilot attempted to crash the airplane after stabbing the pilot, but was subdued by courageous passengers and crew. Roggio critiques the label "lone wolf," noting that it often dangerously disassociates attackers from broader terrorist networks, much like historic cases linked to radical planners. The discussion highlights strict security protocols for Israeli flights and raises serious questions about how a weapon was smuggled past screening. Separately, British authorities arrested individuals connected to state-sponsored Iranian threats, illustrating persistent global security risks amid early reporting uncertainties. (2)Aging Triad Demands Urgent ModernizationPeter Huessy reflects on Cold War civil defense drills and stresses the urgent necessity of modernizing America's aging nuclear triad. The U.S. military currently operates 42-year-old submarines, 55-year-old Minuteman III ICBMs, and 70-year-old B-52 bombers that risk rusting into obsolescence without modernization. Huessy details historical arms control pacts, noting how exiting the 1972 ABM Treaty allowed the U.S. to build defensive interceptor systems against emerging missile threats from states like North Korea. Facing nuclear build-ups and aggressive posturing from Russia, China, and North Korea, the U.S. relies on extended nuclear deterrence and allied cooperation to maintain strategic stability. (3)Beijing Blocks Second Thomas ResupplyCaptain James Fanell, co-host Gordon Chang: Fanell discusses aggressive Chinese maritime tactics in the South China Sea, where a coordinated force of three PLA Navy warships and eleven Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels blocked two small Philippine Coast Guard vessels resupplying the grounded outpost Sierra Madre. This blockade broke a series of fifteen successful resupply missions conducted since July 2024, demonstrating Beijing's willingness to violate international agreements and its own signed code of conduct. Fanell notes that internal purges of over one hundred senior military officers in Beijing have not disrupted the execution of these coordinated bullying operations against neighboring sovereign nations. (4)US Navy Protects Hormuz TransitRebecca Grant, co-host Gordon Chang: Grant refutes Iranian propaganda claiming disruption of U.S. Fifth Fleetoperations near the Strait of Hormuz. Grant explains that Iran lacks precise real-time tracking capabilities to target agile, fast-moving American destroyers and aircraft carriers operating in deep zone defense formations. Even if foreign satellites provide imagery, targeting data quickly becomes stale and ineffective. Under U.S. Navy protection, between 10 and 20 million barrels of oil per day continue to transit safely out of the Gulf. This maintains an effective economic blockade on Iranian exports while keeping vital global shipping lanes secure. (5)Trump Meets Xi In WashingtonCharles Burton, co-host Gordon Chang: Burton evaluates the summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders in Washington, describing it as a diplomatic spectacle that delivered virtually no substantive policy agreements. Critical issues like artificial intelligence safeguards, Taiwan's sovereignty, and trade imbalances were completely omitted, handing Beijing a domestic propaganda victory. Burton also examines Canadian political dynamics under Mark Carney, where public sentiment has grown increasingly nationalistic and supportive of trade diversification toward Europe and India. This shift comes in response to economic pressure, U.S. tariffs, and covert intimidation operations conducted by Chinese state agents on Canadian soil. (6)Greenland Defense Strategy Secures NorthBradley Bowman highlights Greenland's vital geographic role in North American defense, dominating the GIUK gapand providing early warning detection against Russian and Chinese missile threats. While recent defense agreements properly expand radar facilities and military infrastructure, Bowman argues that coercive political tactics unnecessarily strained relations with Denmark, a steadfast NATO ally. Effective Arctic defense requires the three-D kill chain: detect, decide, and deliver. Because the U.S. lacks sufficient icebreakers and polar infrastructure, deep defense cooperation with Arctic allies like Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Canada remains indispensable for hemispheric security. (7)Private Enterprise Advances Space ExplorationBob Zimmerman highlights major developments in commercial space flight and astronomy. SpaceX achieved orbit on its 14th Starship test flight, deploying 26 Starlink version 3 satellites before completing soft vertical ocean splashdowns. Boeing and NASA agreed on an unmanned cargo mission to test fixes for Starliner thruster and corrosion issues. Meanwhile, Blue Origin raised $10 billion to advance New Glenn development under CEO David Limp. NASA's Perseverance rover resumed updates after surveying Jezero Crater for drilling. Finally, the James Webb Space Telescope detected heavy elements in early galaxies, challenging current cosmological models. (8)European Commodity Prices Rise Sharply — Guest: Simon Constable Simon Constable discusses global commodity trends, European political shifts, and artificial intelligence infrastructure. Brent crude has risen to $97 per barrel, while European diesel prices surged to $9.52 per gallon, placing severe economic strain on consumers and agriculture. Critiquing British politics under the Labour government, Constable expresses concern over heavy taxation, public debt, and bloated social welfare spending. Turning to artificial intelligence, Constable notes that while new data centers bring needed financial investment to rural communities, their rapid expansion raises widespread anxiety over massive power consumption, with facilities now using over 4% of U.S. electricity. 9Examining Wealth Inequality And Innovation — Guest: David Henderson David Henderson contrasts market innovation with political cronyism when evaluating wealth inequality. Rebutting Thomas Piketty's proposal for uniform wealth taxation, Henderson demonstrates that entrepreneurs like Robert McCulloch or Elon Musk created fortunes by delivering superior products that immensely benefited consumers. Citing research by William Nordhaus, he notes that innovators retain only 2.2% of the value generated by their innovations, with 97.8% flowing directly to consumers. Conversely, wealth acquired through government favor and anti-competitive restrictions harms consumers. Henderson concludes that heavy taxation on wealth discourages capital investment, productivity, and real wage growth. 10

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal.In our Season 26 opener, we travel to Norway for an extraordinary account spanning almost an entire lifetime. From unsettling experiences beginning in early childhood to encounters that seemingly refuse to remain confined to any one house, Kevin has spent years questioning exactly what he has witnessed — and, perhaps more importantly, why it appears to continue wherever life takes him. Are some places simply more susceptible to the paranormal, can certain people perceive things the rest of us cannot, or are there occasions when leaving the location behind simply isn't enough? Tonight's submission is a deeply personal journey through family, loss, unexplained encounters and the disturbing possibility that sometimes, no matter how far you travel, you can't outrun true darkness.Stay safe,Kevin.We're giving a full week's trial of our Patreon, where you can access our huge back catalogue of exclusive episodes:www.patreon.com/thedarkparanormalHave you experienced something you can't explain? Submit your experience:www.thedarkparanormal.com/submit-your-experienceFollow The Dark Paranormal:Twitter/X: /darkparanormalxFacebook: /thedarkparanormalYouTube: /thedarkparanormalInstagram: /thedarkparanormalOur Sponsors:* Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/darkparanormal for a great deal: https://www.acorns.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, we're looking at a legendary figure who thought ruling England would be one more step in his quest to be the dominant power in the North Sea. His legendary prowess in battle was known from Sicily to Orkney, and his name was Harald Hardrada. This week, Danièle speaks with James Turner about Harald's travels, his conquests, and his place in the wide world of the eleventh century.This podcast is made possible by the generous support of listeners like you! To find out how to help spread the joy of medieval history, please visit patreon.com/themedievalpodcast

Norway's parliament has opened public hearings into Jeffrey Epstein's connections with Norwegian politicians and diplomats after newly released U.S. records exposed a wider web of relationships between Epstein and members of the country's political and diplomatic elite. The parliament's scrutiny and constitutional affairs committee has summoned 11 current and former foreign and development ministers, including Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who served as foreign minister from 2005 to 2012. Former foreign minister Børge Brende, who resigned as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum after revelations about his relationship with Epstein, is also expected to testify. Brende has said he did not know about Epstein's criminal past when they first met in 2018 and has expressed regret that he did not investigate him more thoroughly.The hearings are part of a much broader reckoning in Norway, where several other prominent figures with Epstein ties are under police investigation on corruption allegations, including former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland, former minister Terje Rød-Larsen and former diplomat Mona Juul. All three have denied criminal wrongdoing. Crown Princess Mette-Marit has also apologized for her friendship with Epstein, though she is not part of the parliamentary hearing. At the same time, parliament has created an external commission of academics and legal experts to examine more than 30 years of Norwegian diplomatic history and determine how these relationships developed, with the stated goal of restoring integrity and transparency in government institutions. The commission is expected to report its findings in early 2028.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Norway's parliament probes Epstein links to politicians, diplomats

Fluent Fiction - Norwegian: Against All Odds: A Lifesaving Mission in the Mountains Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/no/episode/2026-10-01-07-38-20-no Story Transcript:No: Under et dunkelt skydekke drev en skarp vind gjennom fjellene, og kastet røde og gyldne høstblader rundt den lille, trehytte som fungerte som et feltsykehus.En: Under a dark cloud cover, a sharp wind swept through the mountains, tossing red and golden autumn leaves around the small wooden cabin that served as a field hospital.No: Innenfor der inne var det hektisk aktivitet.En: Inside, there was hectic activity.No: Lars, en erfaren feltmedisiner, beveget seg raskt mellom de få forsyningene han hadde.En: Lars, an experienced field medic, moved quickly among the few supplies he had.No: Hans oppgave var klar: han måtte redde livet til en turgåer med alvorlig hypotermi.En: His task was clear: he had to save the life of a hiker with severe hypothermia.No: Lars kastet et blikk gjennom det lille vinduet.En: Lars glanced through the small window.No: Regnet slo mot ruten med fornyet styrke.En: The rain beat against the pane with renewed force.No: Stormen nærmet seg, og kommunikasjonslinjene til det store sykehuset var svake.En: The storm was approaching, and communication lines to the main hospital were weak.No: Han kunne ikke stole på ekstern hjelp, ikke ennå.En: He couldn't rely on external help, at least not yet.No: Hanne, en ung sykepleier som assisterte ham, la en varm klut på den bevisstløse mannens panne.En: Hanne, a young nurse assisting him, placed a warm cloth on the unconscious man's forehead.No: "Han må varmes opp sakte," sa hun bestemt, men øynene hennes reflekterte en gnist av usikkerhet.En: "He needs to be warmed up slowly," she said firmly, but her eyes reflected a spark of uncertainty.No: Ved siden av dem sto Markus, turgåerens venn, med bekymrede øyne.En: Next to them stood Markus, the hiker's friend, with worried eyes.No: "Vil han klare det?En: "Will he make it?"No: " Markus' stemme skar gjennom lyden av stormen utenfor.En: Markus' voice cut through the sound of the storm outside.No: Lars visste at tiden var begrenset.En: Lars knew time was limited.No: Mannen hadde vært utsatt for kulde lenge, men å flytte ham til en lavere høyde i dette været kunne være like risikabelt.En: The man had been exposed to the cold for a long time, but moving him to a lower altitude in this weather could be just as risky.No: Mens han søkte etter en løsning, skannet han det lille rommet med et presist blikk.En: While searching for a solution, he scanned the small room with a precise gaze.No: Han husket de overlevelsesevner han hadde opparbeidet seg gjennom årene.En: He recalled the survival skills he had developed over the years.No: En idé begynte å forme seg.En: An idea began to form.No: Altså, ved å bruke tepper, varme steiner fra peisen, og improvisere med plastposer for å fange varmen, startet han en dristig plan.En: Thus, by using blankets, warm stones from the fireplace, and improvising with plastic bags to trap the heat, he started a bold plan.No: Det var ikke tid til å miste.En: There was no time to lose.No: Lars arbeidet målbevisst, med Hanne ved sin side.En: Lars worked purposefully, with Hanne by his side.No: De pakket mannen godt inn, og etter en stund kunne de se små framskritt.En: They wrapped the man well, and after a while, they could see small progress.No: Den hvite huden fikk litt farge tilbake.En: The pale skin regained some color.No: Markus stirret på vennens ansikt, og for første gang slapp frykten litt taket.En: Markus stared at his friend's face, and for the first time, fear started to release its grip a little.No: Plutselig åpnet mannen øynene, et svak men bevisst blikk møtte Lars'.En: Suddenly, the man opened his eyes, and a weak but conscious gaze met Lars'.No: Den stille bekreftelsen på at livet var i ferd med å vende tilbake spredte en bølge av lettelse gjennom hytten.En: The silent confirmation that life was returning sent a wave of relief through the cabin.No: Som om været følte lettelsen, begynte stormen å lette, skyene delte seg sakte og etterlot et vindgap.En: As if the weather sensed the relief, the storm began to subside, the clouds slowly parted, leaving a gap in the wind.No: Det var nå tryggere å evakuere mannen til nødvendig helsehjelp i byen.En: It was now safer to evacuate the man to necessary medical care in the city.No: Da helikopteret endelig lander og mannen ble sikret, kjente Lars et dypt pust frigjøre seg i brystet hans.En: When the helicopter finally landed, and the man was secured, Lars felt a deep breath release in his chest.No: Han beviste for seg selv at han kunne stole på sin egen dømmekraft, sin egen evne.En: He proved to himself that he could rely on his own judgment, his own ability.No: Hans mislykkede forsøk fra fortiden hadde veiledet ham denne dagen, og med det kom en ny forståelse.En: His failed attempts from the past had guided him that day, and with that came a new understanding.No: Lars så ut over landskapet.En: Lars looked out over the landscape.No: De skarpe fjelltoppene var kledd i et lag av ny, lys snø.En: The sharp mountain peaks were dressed in a layer of new, light snow.No: Nok en dag i Norges storslåtte natur, en dag som nå ga ham fornyet tro på egne ferdigheter og en følelse av mening.En: Another day in Norway's magnificent nature, a day that now gave him renewed faith in his own abilities and a sense of purpose. Vocabulary Words:swept: drevautumn: høsthectic: hektiskexperienced: erfarenhypothermia: hypotermiglanced: kastet et blikkpane: rutenrenewed: fornyetapproaching: nærmet segcommunication: kommunikasjonslinjenerelied: stoleassisting: assisterteuncertainty: usikkerhetexposed: utsattaltitude: høydeprecise: presistsurvival: overlevelsesevnerstones: steinerimprovising: improviserepurposefully: målbevisstprogress: framskrittpale: hviteconfirmed: bekreftelsensubside: letteevacuate: evakueresecured: sikretjudgment: dømmekraftfailed: mislykkedeguide: veiledetlandscape: landskap

Fluent Fiction - Norwegian: Courage Under Gold: A Battle of Wits in Norway's Peaks Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/no/episode/2026-10-01-22-34-02-no Story Transcript:No: Ettermiddagen hadde kastet et gyllent teppe av blader over den norske fjellheimen.En: The afternoon had cast a golden carpet of leaves over the Norwegian mountains.No: Inne i feltsykehuset var stemningen hektisk.En: Inside the field hospital, the atmosphere was hectic.No: Sigrid, sykepleieren med rolig hånd, beveget seg raskt mellom pasientene.En: Sigrid, the nurse with a steady hand, moved quickly between the patients.No: Hun visste at hvert minutt talte.En: She knew that every minute counted.No: Hvert skrik fra smerte minnet henne på presset hun følte: å være nok, å gjøre nok.En: Every cry of pain reminded her of the pressure she felt: to be enough, to do enough.No: Utenfor hadde en gruppe turgåere møtt en uventet ulykke.En: Outside, a group of hikers had encountered an unexpected accident.No: Klippene hadde gitt etter, og mange hadde falt.En: The cliffs had given way, and many had fallen.No: Inne i teltet kunne Sigrid lukte den svake metalliske duften av medisiner og høre summingen av bekymrede samtaler.En: Inside the tent, Sigrid could smell the faint metallic scent of medicines and hear the hum of worried conversations.No: Kasper, den unge legen, tørket svetten av pannen.En: Kasper, the young doctor, wiped the sweat from his brow.No: Han var tildelt Lars, en erfaren turgåer, som lå med alvorlige skader.En: He was assigned to Lars, an experienced hiker, who lay with serious injuries.No: Lars hadde en familie, kone og barn som ventet.En: Lars had a family, a wife, and children waiting.No: Håpet hvilte på Kasper og Sigrid.En: Hope rested on Kasper and Sigrid.No: Sigrid kom bort til Kasper.En: Sigrid came over to Kasper.No: "Hvordan går det med Lars?En: "How is Lars doing?"No: " spurte hun, og la hånden på Lars' arm for å berolige ham.En: she asked, placing her hand on Lars' arm to reassure him.No: Kasper nølte, tvilen naget ham.En: Kasper hesitated, doubt gnawed at him.No: "Vi må gjøre en risikabel prosedyre," svarte han lavt.En: "We have to perform a risky procedure," he replied quietly.No: "Men jeg er usikker.En: "But I'm uncertain."No: "Sigrid kjente frykten stige, men hun visste de måtte ta en avgjørelse.En: Sigrid felt the fear rising, but she knew they had to make a decision.No: "Vi har ikke mange ressurser," sa hun, "men vi har hverandre.En: "We don't have many resources," she said, "but we have each other.No: Vi må stole på våre ferdigheter.En: We have to trust our skills."No: "Sammen begynte de prosedyren.En: Together they began the procedure.No: Utenfor teltene hørte man vinden rive i tretoppene.En: Outside the tents, the wind could be heard tearing through the treetops.No: Et tegn på uroen inni.En: A sign of the turmoil inside.No: Sigrid veiledet Kasper rolig, og hennes hender arbeidet med presisjon.En: Sigrid guided Kasper calmly, and her hands worked with precision.No: Pasientenes skjebner hvilte på deres skuldre.En: The patients' fates rested on their shoulders.No: De jobbet som en enhet, utrettelig og fokusert.En: They worked as a unit, tirelessly and focused.No: Plutselig begynte Lars å puste jevnere.En: Suddenly, Lars began to breathe more evenly.No: Et lite, men betydningsfullt tegn på at de hadde gjort det riktige.En: A small, but significant sign that they had done the right thing.No: Da natten senket seg, små stjerner blinket høyt oppe, hadde ting inne i sykehuset stabilisert seg.En: As night descended, and small stars twinkled high above, things inside the hospital had stabilized.No: Lars så opp på Sigrid og Kasper, takknemlig.En: Lars looked up at Sigrid and Kasper, grateful.No: "Dere reddet meg," sa han svakt.En: "You saved me," he said weakly.No: Sigrid pustet ut lettet.En: Sigrid exhaled in relief.No: Hun visste nå at hun kunne lede, at hun kunne få alle igjennom krevende stunder.En: She now knew she could lead, that she could get everyone through demanding times.No: Kasper, på sin side, kjente en nyvunnen selvtillit.En: Kasper, for his part, felt a newfound confidence.No: Han hadde klart det, med Sigrids hjelp, men også av egen styrke.En: He had managed it, with Sigrid's help, but also through his own strength.No: De hadde vunnet en liten krig i kaoset, og den lille seieren var alt de trengte akkurat nå.En: They had won a small battle in the chaos, and that little victory was all they needed right now.No: De skadet fikk den hjelpen de trengte, og sakte men sikkert begynte familien å bli gjenforent, akkompagnert av den stille hymnen fra fjellene.En: The injured received the help they needed, and slowly but surely, the family began to be reunited, accompanied by the silent hymn from the mountains. Vocabulary Words:afternoon: ettermiddaghectic: hektisksteady: roligsmell: luktefaith: håpprocedure: prosedyreprecise: presisjonfate: skjebnebreathe: pusterelief: lettelsenewfound: nyvunnenstrength: styrkehiker: turgåeraccident: ulykkecliff: klippeexperience: erfarenhesitate: nøltegnaw: nagewhisper: hviskeuncertain: usikkerresource: ressurstrust: stoledecision: avgjørelseunit: enhettirelessly: utretteligfocus: fokusereturmoil: urovictory: seierreunite: gjenforeneshymn: hymne

Norway's parliament has opened public hearings into Jeffrey Epstein's connections with Norwegian politicians and diplomats after newly released U.S. records exposed a wider web of relationships between Epstein and members of the country's political and diplomatic elite. The parliament's scrutiny and constitutional affairs committee has summoned 11 current and former foreign and development ministers, including Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who served as foreign minister from 2005 to 2012. Former foreign minister Børge Brende, who resigned as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum after revelations about his relationship with Epstein, is also expected to testify. Brende has said he did not know about Epstein's criminal past when they first met in 2018 and has expressed regret that he did not investigate him more thoroughly.The hearings are part of a much broader reckoning in Norway, where several other prominent figures with Epstein ties are under police investigation on corruption allegations, including former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland, former minister Terje Rød-Larsen and former diplomat Mona Juul. All three have denied criminal wrongdoing. Crown Princess Mette-Marit has also apologized for her friendship with Epstein, though she is not part of the parliamentary hearing. At the same time, parliament has created an external commission of academics and legal experts to examine more than 30 years of Norwegian diplomatic history and determine how these relationships developed, with the stated goal of restoring integrity and transparency in government institutions. The commission is expected to report its findings in early 2028.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Norway's parliament probes Epstein links to politicians, diplomatsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

On Thursday 1st October 2026, Carl Munson's Good Morning Portugal! news leads with a wave of strikes: public-sector workers, airport staff and police unions launching nationwide strikes and protests throughout October, starting tomorrow, with some people extending the Monday public holiday into a long weekend. Other headlines include economic uncertainty for Lisbon's vulnerable bottle collectors (the human side of the Volta story), Cristiano Ronaldo leaving the national-team camp and being in doubt for the Denmark match after being benched against Norway, the King of Spain awarding former President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa the Josep Piqué Prize, October tax obligations for businesses and families, state tax revenue rising 5% to €41.5 billion through August, and helmets becoming mandatory for scooter and e-bike users. Weather is cooler and overcast, with Lisbon around 23°C.#GoodMorningPortugal #PortugalNews #OctoberStrikes #Volta #BottleCollectors #CristianoRonaldo #Marcelo #TaxRevenue #EBikeHelmets #Portugal2026Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-good-morning-portugal-podcast-with-carl-munson--2903992/support.Get help moving to and living in Portugal

No Jamie again this week so Welshtechie and Daz say a big thank you to Humphrey Ker, read some of the mailbag, look back at Portugal and Denmark v Cymru, plus Briton Ferry Llansawell Women v Wrexham Women, discuss the latest news and look forward to Cymru v Norway, Wrexham Women v TNS Women and Cymru v Denmark.

"Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark" by Mary Wollstonecraft offers a vivid and personal account of her travels through Scandinavia, capturing the landscapes, cultures, and people she encounters. This collection of letters reflects her observations and insights, showcasing her keen intellect and passionate spirit. Wollstonecraft's exploration of the natural world and human experience resonates with themes of adventure, self-discovery, and the pursuit of knowledge. Hearing her thoughts today reminds us of the enduring value of travel as a means of personal growth and the importance of engaging with diverse perspectives.

Несмотря на заявление администрации одного из учреждений о том, что «этот день стал настоящим праздником дружбы, мужества и спорта», остаётся вопрос, имели ли воспитанники интернатов возможность отказаться от участия.ЧитатьТелеграм-канал 

А его супруге Елене Горбань снова отказали в рассмотрении жалобы на бездействие следствия по делу о пытках супруга. Политзаключенный считает это местью за выигранный ей иск против колонии «Полярная сова».ЧитатьТелеграм-канал

1899 GREENLAND - Greenland Defense Strategy Secures NorthBradley Bowman highlights Greenland's vital geographic role in North American defense, dominating the GIUK gapand providing early warning detection against Russian and Chinese missile threats. While recent defense agreements properly expand radar facilities and military infrastructure, Bowman argues that coercive political tactics unnecessarily strained relations with Denmark, a steadfast NATO ally. Effective Arctic defense requires the three-D kill chain: detect, decide, and deliver. Because the U.S. lacks sufficient icebreakers and polar infrastructure, deep defense cooperation with Arctic allies like Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Canada remains indispensable for hemispheric security. (7)

#992 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/992Presented by: Smitty's Fly Box, Togiak River Lodge, Stonefly Nets, Yellowstone Teton Territory - Visit Idaho Sponsors: https://www.wetflyswing.com/sponsors Jan Erik Granbo lives near Trondheim in central Norway, where he has around 40 Atlantic salmon rivers within his region. We dig into everything Atlantic salmong fishing, from the June salmon window and Scandinavian two-handed setups to finding resting fish, planning a Norway trip, and fishing dry flies later in summer.Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/992

On this episode, we listen back to a 2025 conversation about the bicentennial anniversary of organized Norwegian immigration to the U.S. and how Norwegian culture has shaped the Midwest and the U.S. as a whole. First, we hear highlights from the now-King of Norway's visit to the Vesterheim National Norwegian American Museum and Folk Art School and Luther College in Decorah. Then, we hear more about the Decorah-Norway partnership from Chris Johnson of Vesterheim and Maren Johnson of Luther. Later, Norwegian Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen and ISU faculty Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock discuss how Leif Erikson lore has been enshrined across the U.S., as the two of them have had Fulbright residencies in each other's homeland. (This episode was originally produced Oct. 8, 2025.)

Norway's parliament has opened public hearings into Jeffrey Epstein's connections with Norwegian politicians and diplomats after newly released U.S. records exposed a wider web of relationships between Epstein and members of the country's political and diplomatic elite. The parliament's scrutiny and constitutional affairs committee has summoned 11 current and former foreign and development ministers, including Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who served as foreign minister from 2005 to 2012. Former foreign minister Børge Brende, who resigned as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum after revelations about his relationship with Epstein, is also expected to testify. Brende has said he did not know about Epstein's criminal past when they first met in 2018 and has expressed regret that he did not investigate him more thoroughly.The hearings are part of a much broader reckoning in Norway, where several other prominent figures with Epstein ties are under police investigation on corruption allegations, including former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland, former minister Terje Rød-Larsen and former diplomat Mona Juul. All three have denied criminal wrongdoing. Crown Princess Mette-Marit has also apologized for her friendship with Epstein, though she is not part of the parliamentary hearing. At the same time, parliament has created an external commission of academics and legal experts to examine more than 30 years of Norwegian diplomatic history and determine how these relationships developed, with the stated goal of restoring integrity and transparency in government institutions. The commission is expected to report its findings in early 2028.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Norway's parliament probes Epstein links to politicians, diplomatsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

What changes when jazz musicians play for dancers for the very first time?In this episode, I have talked with Åsmund Waage (vibraphone) and Henrik Haugen (guitar) during the Oslo Swing Jazz Festival.Both musicians have played together for years, but the concert the night before was their first experience playing swing jazz for a dancing audience.We talk about:​ Playing for dancers for the first time​ Why repetition feels different when people are moving to the music​The connection between musicians and dancers​Jazz traditions, community, and belonging​Why music is about more than sound aloneIf you have ever wondered what the music feels like from the other side of the stage, this episode offers a rare and honest glimpse into that world.A shout-out to #OsloSwingJazzFestival:This episode has been recorded in August 2026 during Oslo Swing Jazz Festival in Norway, as a collaboration with the event. Thank you for the space, the music, and the people who make conversations like this possible.______________________________________________​Subscribe & review the podcast to help me grow

དཔལ་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་འདི་ལོའི་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཟླ་མཇུག་ཏུ་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་དུ་ཕེབས་གཏན་འཁེལ་བ་དང་འབྲེལ། འབྲས་ལྗོངས་མངའ་སྡེའི་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་བློན་ཆེན་མཆོག་གིས་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་མཆོག་མྱུར་དུ་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་མངའ་སྡེའི་ནང་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་མཛད་རྒྱུའི་རེ་བ་ཞུ་བཞིན་པ་དང་མངའ་སྡེ་གཞུང་ནས་ཐབས་ཤེས་གང་ཡོང་གནང་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། ཉིན་གཅིག་གཏན་གཏན་ཕེབས་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་ཅེས་གསུངས་འདུག དེ་ཡང་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ ཚེས་ ༢༩ ནས་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༡ ཚེས་ ༧ བར་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་མཆོག་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་། འབྲུག་དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ས་གནས་སུ་གསར་རྒྱག་གནང་བཞིན་པའི་འབྲུག་ཡུལ་གྱི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་མཛད་སྒོ་དབུས་པའི་གནས་གཟིགས་དང་ཆོས་འབྲེལ་སོགས་ཀྱི་མཛད་འཆར་ཁག་གཅིག་ཐུགས་གཏན་འཁེལ་བ་དང་འབྲེལ། འདི་ཚེས་ ༢༦ ཉིན་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་བདུད་འཇོམས་ཐོས་བསམ་འཕགས་པ་རྫོང་དགོན་པ་དབུ་འབྱེད་མཛད་སྒོའི་ཐོག །སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་བློན་ཆེན་ Prem Singh Tamang-Golay པྲེམ་སིང་རྟ་དམག་གོ་ལེ་ལགས་ཀྱིས་གསུང་བཤད་ཁྲོད། དཔལ་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ནང་དུ་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་མཛད་རྒྱུའི་གནད་དོན་དེ་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས་འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ནི་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་མངའ་སྡེ་དང་ཐག་ཉེ་པོ་ཡོད་སྟབས། མི་མང་ཡང་ཁུལ་དེར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་མཇལ་ཞུ་སླད་དུ་བསྐྱོད་འཆར་ཡོད་སྲིད་པ་དང་སྐྱོད་དགོས་ངེས་ཀྱང་ཡིན་ཞིང་། མངའ་སྡེ་གཞུང་གི་ངོས་ནས་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་མཆོག་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སུ་གདན་འདྲེན་ཞུ་རྒྱུའི་ཆེད་དུ་མུ་མཐུད་འབད་བརྩོན་གང་ཡོང་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་དང་། དབུས་གཞུང་དང་ལྷན་དུའང་འབྲེལ་བ་བྱས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། ཉིན་གཅིག་གཏན་གཏན་ཕེབས་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་ཅེས་གསུངས་སོང་། ད་དུང་ཁོང་གིས་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་མཆོག་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཉེ་འདབས་སུ་ཡོད་པའི་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་དུ་ཕེབས་རྒྱུ་དེ་ནི། ང་ཚོར་མཚོན་ན་དོན་འབྲས་ཆེན་པོ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ཞིང་། མགྱོགས་ནས་མྱུར་དུ་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སུ་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་མཛད་ཐུབ་པའི་སྨོན་འདུན་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་དང་། ལྷག་པར་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་མཆོག་ལ་དེ་འབྲེལ་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞུས་ཡོད་པ་དང་ཆབས་ཅིག །འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ནང་དུ་ཆོས་སྡེ་ཁག་མང་པོ་ཡོད་པའི་བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་མཐུ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་མྱུར་དུ་ཞལ་མཇལ་སྐལ་བཟང་གི་གོ་སྐབས་ཐོབ་རྒྱུའི་རེ་བ་འཆང་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་གསུངས་འདུག རྩ་བའི་ད་རེས་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་ལྟར་མང་ཚོགས་སྟོང་ཕྲག་མང་པོས་དྭང་བླངས་ཐོག་མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཀྱིས་ཉིན་གཅིག་ནང་བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོད་རྟེན་མཐོ་ཚད་ལ་མི་ཊར་ ༡༥ ཅན་གྲངས་ ༡༠༨ བཞེངས་རྒྱུའི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་མཛད་སྒོར་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་རིས་སུ་མ་མཆིས་པའི་བསྟན་བདག་བླ་ཆེན་རྣམ་པ་ཕེབས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་དང་། བླ་ཆེན་ཁྲོད་༸དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་ཁྲི་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དང་། ༸དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག །དེ་བཞིན་ས་སྐྱ་༸གོང་མ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་ ༤༢ པ་རཏྣ་བཛྲ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག །ས་སྐྱ་༸གོང་མ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་ ༤༣ པ་ཛྙན་བཛྲ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག །༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཛི་སྒར་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་སོགས་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་མཛད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། བོད་མིའི་བླ་ཆེན་ཁག་གཅིག་ནས་བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོད་རྟེན་རེ་བཞེངས་རྒྱུའི་སྦྱིན་བདག་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༧ ལོར་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་བྱང་ཨ་རི་ཁུལ་དུ་སྨན་བཅོས་སླད་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་མཛད་དེ།  སྐབས་དེ་དུས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ཁག་གཅིག་གི་རྐྱེན་པས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་ཡུལ་དེའི་ས་ཁྲའི་གཤམ་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་ Dominica རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་མི་སེར་གྱི་ཐོབ་ཐང་བཞེས་ཡོད་པ་དང་།  དུས་དེ་ནས་བཟུང་༸རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་མཆོག་རྒྱ་གར་དུ་ཕྱིར་ཕེབས་ཐུབ་མེད་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་བྱུང་ཡོད་པ་དེ་ལྟར་ཡང་། […] The post ༸རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་མཆོག་མྱུར་དུ་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ནང་ཕེབས་ཐུབ་ཐབས་སླད་གང་ཡོང་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད་ཅེས་གསུངས་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Guest: Helen FrederickHost:  Christopher KardambikisRecorded on June 24, 2026 at Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, MD.Helen Frederick is recognized as a distinguished artist, curator, educator, coordinator of international projects, and as founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a center for contemporary printmaking, hand papermaking and the art of the book. As an advocate for and an active participant in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area arts scene, she has served on the directorial boards of alternative art spaces, various local and national boards including the CollegeArt Association, and national peer-review panels. Her work has been exhibited at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, Henie-Onstad Museum, Norway, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan, and is in collections of the Rhode Island School of Design, Whitney Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art, Library ofCongress, and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among many others. Frederick, who is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Art at George Mason University, has fulfilled speaking engagements around the world, always emphasizing collaboration across disciplines. Throughout her life, Frederick's passion for diverse cultures and histories has led her to travel to observe the material cultures of many societies, their skills, and ideas and to make connections among disparate cultural traditions. Her private Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, Maryland, provides collaborative opportunities for artists interested in works in and on paper, constructions, artist books, and critical conversations about social justice, cultural and visual literacy. She has received the Southern Graphic Council International Printmaker Emeritus Award, the College Art Association Distinguished Teacher Award, and was invited into the Feminist Art Base archive, the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Frederick is an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design. She serves as the organizational curator for the Kala Chaupal Trust, New Delhi, India.

What happens when an ancient wellness tradition meets a new wave of global enthusiasm? Recorded at the International Sauna Congress in Oslo, Norway, Lisa Starr explores the rapidly evolving world of sauna and sweat culture with leaders, practitioners, and architects shaping its future. From preserving centuries-old traditions to the rise of Aufguss, sauna masters, thermal experiences, and more inclusive bathing environments, these conversations reveal why sauna is becoming an increasingly important part of the global wellness landscape. The Congress itself brought together 600 attendees from 30 countries, reflecting the extraordinary international interest in sauna culture.  What You'll Learn Why the global growth of sauna creates both opportunity and responsibility to respect traditional sweat cultures How Aufguss combines heat, scent, movement, storytelling, and performance into an immersive sauna experience Why the role of the sauna master goes far beyond entertainment to include guest safety, heat management, facilitation, and holding space How emerging concepts such as thermal architecture, thermal dosing, human response, and human capacity could help create more thoughtful thermal experiences How architects are designing spa and bathing environments around the entire guest journey, including transitions, accessibility, privacy, social connection, and a sense of place International Sauna Congress Episode Highlights 00:48 – Why the International Sauna Congress is like the "Olympics of Sauna" 03:04 – Bringing the global sauna community together 05:32 – The extraordinary growth of sauna and sweat culture 10:26 – Meet Chris Shenkle, an American who became a Norwegian sauna champion 20:46 – What is Show Aufguss and what makes the experience unique? 32:00 – The evolving and increasingly complex role of the sauna master 38:05 – Creating standards and a new framework for thermal architecture 41:07 – How Basalt Architects designs sauna, spa, and bathing experiences 48:29 – Designing the guest journey through a thermal facility 59:16 – Inclusivity, accessibility, mental well-being, and the future of bathing culture International Sauna Congress Meet the Guests Lasse Eriksen is Development Manager at Farris Bad and serves in leadership roles across the Norwegian and international sauna community. He discusses the importance of learning from different sweat cultures and approaching sauna's rapid growth with curiosity, humility, and respect.  Chris Shenkle is an American performer turned sauna master whose unexpected career path took him from New York City to Norway and eventually to national and international Aufguss competition. His story demonstrates the skill involved in combining performance with the responsibilities of managing a thermal environment.  Anders Hage brings experience in performance, wellness, and sauna facilitation to his work with Denmark's sauna community. He shares his perspective on facilitated sauna, sauna master education, professional standards, and his emerging framework of thermal architecture.  Perla Dís Kristinsdóttir and Hrólfur Karl Cela of Basalt Architects discuss Icelandic bathing culture and designing spa environments that are deeply connected to place, nature, culture, accessibility, and the guest journey. Their firm's experience includes work connected with Iceland's renowned Blue Lagoon.  Closing Insight As sauna culture expands around the world, the opportunity is bigger than adding heat to a wellness facility. Thoughtful thermal experiences require an understanding of tradition, culture, human connection, guest safety, design, and the people who facilitate the experience. As Lasse reminds us, there is still much to learn, making humility and listening especially important as the global sauna community evolves. Ready to explore what's next for sauna and thermal wellness? Listen to the full StarrCast episode, recorded at the International Sauna Congress in Oslo. Looking for expert advice in Spa Consulting, with live training and online learning? Spa Consulting: https://wynnebusiness.com/spa-management-consulting  Live Training: https://wynnebusiness.com/spa-management-courses/  Online Learning: https://wynnebusiness.com/spa-management-courses  Other Links: Connect with Lasse Eriksen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lasse-eriksen-04a27481/ Connect with Anders Hage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andershage/ Connect with Perla Dís Kristinsdóttir: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perla-d%C3%ADs-kristinsdottir-9678812/ Connect with Hrólfur Karl Cela: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrolfur-cela/  Connect with Basalt Architects: https://www.basalt.is/ Follow Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisastarrwynnebusiness  Listen or Watch StarrCast Podcast on Your Preferred Platform or YouTube: https://wynnebusiness.com/starrcast-podcast/  Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wynnebusiness/?ref=bookmarks  Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wynnebusiness/   

This week we talk about EU membership, trade deals, and association.We also discuss Australia, Ursula von der Leyen, and Brussels.Recommended Book: Being You by Anil SethTranscriptJust off the coast of Newfoundland, there's a small group of islands that belongs to France. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon are close enough to Canada that, at their nearest point, the two countries are separated by only a few kilometers of water.In September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met French President Emmanuel Macron on these islands. The two leaders could stand on French territory and talk about a partnership with the European Union, while Canada was visible across the water.A few days earlier, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had made a similar, but possibly more significant proposal. Speaking before the European Parliament, with Carney in the room, she said she wanted to open the door for Canada to become the EU's first “associate member.”Depending on which headline you read about the statement, this may have sounded like Canada might be joining the EU, joining it partway, or joining an entirely new version of it. Soon after, Australia's trade minister said his country was “on the same page” as Canada regarding closer ties, and the European Parliament's president then suggested Australia and New Zealand might follow Canada's lead.Now, despite all those headlines and interpretations, there's one problem with all these stated ambitions: the European Union does not have an established category called associate member. No one has agreed on what rights or obligations an associate member country would have, and figuring that out—and getting some kind of resolution passed—would be necessary for anyone, including Canada and Australia, to get closer in that way with the EU.What I'd like to talk about today is why this proposal was made, what it could mean if it eventually becomes more concrete, and whatever happens, what these statements tell us about the way global alliances are changing.—The EU has 27 member countries, but there are already a few different ways to be connected to it.Full member nations help write EU law and send representatives to its institutions. They all participate in the single market, which means goods, services, money, and people can move across member nation borders under shared rules.The single market is distinct from the customs union, which sets common tariffs on goods imported from elsewhere. Both are distinct from the Schengen area, which removes most routine passport checks between participating countries. And nations that use the euro are another group entirely. These arrangements tend to overlap, but they're not the same thing, and membership in one does not automatically mean membership in all the others.There are also countries outside the EU that participate in some of its systems. Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein belong to the European Economic Area and are part of the single market. To do that they have to accept many EU rules, although they don't vote on those rules as that would require full EU membership. Switzerland has built its own set of bilateral arrangements with the EU. And Britain, after leaving the union, has also negotiated a special trade and cooperation agreement with it.So there are precedents for a country having a deep relationship with the EU without being a member. But there's no ready-made ‘associate' slot that Canada can just step into.There's a legal distinction here, too. The EU treaties say that a European state can apply to become a member, and Canada is not a European state. The treaties separately allow the EU to make association agreements with countries outside the bloc, and it already has many kinds of agreements with external partners. An association agreement, though, does not make that partner a member of the Union.“Associate member” could eventually become a useful name for a new collection of rights and obligations held by nations outside those existing parameters. For now, though, it's a political invitation and a negotiating idea, not a defined legal status.All that said, Canada isn't starting from scratch on this. Its trade agreement with the EU, called CETA, has been applied provisionally since 2017. Most of it is already in effect, though ten EU countries still haven't completed the ratification required for the whole of the agreement to go into force.CETA removes most tariffs and opens some opportunities for companies on each side, but it doesn't make Canada part of the single market. A Canadian product can be easier to sell in Europe without a Canadian worker gaining a general right to take a job there. That's part of the distinction between a trade deal and the sort of relationship people sometimes imagine when they hear the phrase “union membership.”Canada also joined Horizon Europe, the EU's major research funding program, in 2024. It has a security and defense partnership with the EU, and it became the first country outside Europe to join an EU defense financing initiative called SAFE.That means some of the proposed future relationship already exists, but in pieces rather than as a unified whole. The question is whether those pieces can be connected and extended into something much more ambitious and holistic.Now, important to understanding the why of all this is understanding Canada's relationship with the US, and how that relationship has been fraying, of late.Canada's economy is deeply integrated with that of the United States. Its proximity to the massive US market has brought enormous benefits, but it also means a change in American trade policy can have an immediate and dramatic effect on Canadian businesses. President Donald Trump's tariffs and repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st state have made that dependence more than a little politically uncomfortable.For Carney, a closer European relationship offers a way to reduce the risk of having too many economic and security decisions shaped by one increasingly unpredictable and at times belligerent neighboring country. Europe has its own reasons to be interested in closer ties. Canada has energy and critical minerals, industrial capacity, research institutions, and a role in the Arctic. Both sides also support Ukraine and work together through NATO and other forums.Von der Leyen has proposed cooperation with Canada on batteries, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, and defense production. Carney has added ideas about financial services and opportunities for young people to live, work, and study across the Atlantic.This isn't a plan to move Canada's economy from one continent to another. Geography still matters. A car part crossing the US-Canada border may be part of a production chain built up over decades; a new trade agreement with Europe doesn't instantly recreate or replace that chain.But diversification doesn't require replacing one partner with another. It can mean having additional buyers, suppliers, research collaborators, and sources of investment, so that a disruption in one relationship is less damaging.The costs and limits matter here, too. Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has warned that deeper EU ties could mean higher costs and Canadian industries being regulated from Brussels. His motives in bringing this up are likely at least partly political, but it's a question worth asking: if Canada wants more access to a tightly regulated European market, which European standards would it have to accept as a tradeoff?Europe would face its own questions. EU governments have spent decades building shared rules among countries that accept reciprocal obligations. They may not want to give a distant partner the benefits of those standards without comparable commitments. The fact that ten member states have yet to ratify the existing Canada trade agreement is a reminder that closer ties require more than an enthusiastic speech from the Commission president; there are real, practical realities to consider, here.If something like this were to move forward, we don't yet know whether the final result would be one major agreement or a series of smaller ones. The latter might be easier to negotiate: a defense arrangement could advance while mobility or food standards remain unresolved, for instance. But calling the package an associate membership could also raise expectations that every difficult issue will be solved at once, which probably isn't realistic.And none of this automatically grants Canadians the right to settle anywhere in the EU, or Europeans the right to settle in Canada. Carney has talked about expanding opportunities for young people, but the scope of any mobility arrangement would have to be negotiated. A youth work or study program would be a very different proposition from full freedom of movement.And as all of this has played out, Australia has watched with interest.Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell said Australia and Canada were “on the same page” about building stronger ties with Europe, and that he would watch what Carney did. Then European Parliament President Roberta Metsola named Australia and New Zealand as examples of countries with which the EU could deepen its relationship.Those remarks generated another round of headlines about countries joining Europe, but as with Canada, things are more complicated than most of the reporting on this would suggest.Australia and the EU finished negotiating a free trade agreement earlier this year, but it still has to be signed and brought into force. They also have a security and defense partnership and have discussed bringing Australia into Horizon Europe. At a September meeting, their leaders focused on those steps, along with potential agreements related to critical minerals and technology.All of which illustrates the difference between a political signal and a policy commitment. Whether the involved negotiators eventually decide on some kind of associate terminology is arguably less consequential than the real-deal agreements being worked out piecemeal, today.If the associate model were to become a real thing and catch on with Canada and Australia, that could open the doors for more and deeper collaborations by the EU with non-member states, though, which could be long-term impactful, even if it took a while to spin-up.Looking across the channel at Britain, we find evidence that an associate membership with the EU might have real appeal, even for union skeptics.In a YouGov survey published ten years after the Brexit vote, 57% of Britons said leaving had been the wrong decision, and 55% said they supported rejoining the EU in principle. But when asked about rejoining without Britain's old exceptions to EU rules, support fell to 35%. Meanwhile, 59% supported a closer relationship without rejoining the EU, its single market, or its customs union.Those results don't tell us what Britons would think of a hypothetical Canadian-style agreement, but they do suggest that the details are important. “Closer ties” can sound attractive to people who are uncomfortable with shared laws, movement across borders, and which institutions get the final say, because it suggests more benefits with fewer organizational constraints. There's a non-zero chance any new, tighter agreement with Canada would face similar, detail-oriented issues, and a mix of approval and disapproval from Canadian citizenry.Show Noteshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/von-der-leyen-mark-carney-canada-eu-first-associate-memberhttps://www.politico.eu/article/australia-on-the-same-page-as-canada-on-deepening-eu-ties-says-key-minister-trade-don-farrell/https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendumhttps://sentiers.media/the-map-fiction-missed/https://cyprus.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/2026-state-union-address-president-von-der-leyen-2026-09-16_enhttps://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/09/17/prime-minister-carney-delivers-address-european-parliamenthttps://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/09/20/prime-minister-carney-delivers-remarks-conclude-his-visit-saint-pierre-ethttps://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/09/17/prime-minister-carney-deepens-ties-trusted-allies-visit-france-andhttps://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/video/I-294577https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/treaty-on-european-union-joining-the-eu.htmlhttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/ This is a public episode. 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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode. A Board of Peace official notes to Magid at the United Nations General Assembly that the organization envisions a de-radicalized Gaza as part of a broader end to war, suggesting that a similar transformation needs to happen in Israel as well, given talk amongst politicians of different stripes encouraging Palestinians to leave Gaza, a euphemism for forced displacement. As the Board of Peace unveils a six-month, $2.45 billion reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, Magid says that BOP's discussions with Israel have been complex given the upcoming election and work won't begin until well after the October 27 election, although they will exert pressure to begin implementing the plans. With the Norwegian government advancing legislation to outlaw trade with Israeli settlements, Magid reports on his interview with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, who says that Norway is trying to balance interests and doesn't want to boycott all of Israel. Finally, Magid discusses the ongoing confusion about the lack of a uniform response from the US regarding the UK-led settlement sanctions, as Israel wants a US reaction. He notes that US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee offered a fiery response but US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's office didn't issue the same statement, leaving US President Donald Trump with a more apathetic reaction while at the recent United Nations General Assembly. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates. For further reading: Board of Peace official: Extremist views in Israel impeding effort to deradicalize Gaza Board of Peace unveils $2.4B Gaza recovery plan, but hurdles remain before implementation Norway says sanctioning settlements ‘the right thing to do,’ despite potential Israeli retaliation Trump shows apathy about UK-led settlement sanctions, ignoring Israel request for action Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ari Schlacht produced this episode. IMAGE: US bureau chief Jacob Magid appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (AP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode. A Board of Peace official notes to Magid at the United Nations General Assembly that the organization envisions a de-radicalized Gaza as part of a broader end to war, suggesting that a similar transformation needs to happen in Israel as well, given talk amongst politicians of different stripes encouraging Palestinians to leave Gaza, a euphemism for forced displacement. As the Board of Peace unveils a six-month, $2.45 billion reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, Magid says that BOP's discussions with Israel have been complex given the upcoming election and work won't begin until well after the October 27 election, although they will exert pressure to begin implementing the plans. With the Norwegian government advancing legislation to outlaw trade with Israeli settlements, Magid reports on his interview with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, who says that Norway is trying to balance interests and doesn't want to boycott all of Israel. Finally, Magid discusses the ongoing confusion about the lack of a uniform response from the US regarding the UK-led settlement sanctions, as Israel wants a US reaction. He notes that US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee offered a fiery response but US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's office didn't issue the same statement, leaving US President Donald Trump with a more apathetic reaction while at the recent United Nations General Assembly. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates. For further reading: Board of Peace official: Extremist views in Israel impeding effort to deradicalize Gaza Board of Peace unveils $2.4B Gaza recovery plan, but hurdles remain before implementation Norway says sanctioning settlements ‘the right thing to do,’ despite potential Israeli retaliation Trump shows apathy about UK-led settlement sanctions, ignoring Israel request for action Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ari Schlacht produced this episode. IMAGE: US bureau chief Jacob Magid appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (AP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete is joined by Matt Kandela for a Power 30 during the long international break, dissecting the online "conspiracy" against Bukayo Saka and everything going on in the wider Premier League. The Hottest Takes take aim at Bernardo Silva, with a proper deep dive into why he belongs in football's dirtiest player hall of fame.

TROLL!!!!This week, Scotty is joined by our longtime listener, friend, and podcaster, Kate From Down Under. They travel to Norway to find out what has the local trolls acting crazy as they discuss the found footage film, "Trollhunter". Kate also answers three questions to get to know her, and if you listen closely, you'll hear some Australian birds in the background!"Trollhunter" was directed by André Øvredal and follows a group of students as they investigate the mysterious deaths of local bears, only to meet a man who is hunting something much bigger.Follow our guest! - https://www.instagram.com/katefromdownunderWhere to watch this episode's movie! - https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/troll-hunterSupport us on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/FunWithHorrorPodcastFollow us on social media:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/396586601815924Twitter - https://twitter.com/funwhorrorInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/fun_with_horror_podcast/FWH + Fangoria collab:For 20% off at the Fango Shop, just enter FUN_WITH_HORROR_PODCAST at checkout!

This week on Into The Necrosphere, I'm joined by Skyggen of black metal battalion Terrestrial Hospice. Having been a fan of his work for years, the release of the band's devastating new album Omnicide: Chapter 1 finally provided the perfect excuse to bring him onto the show for his debut appearance. We discuss his journey from discovering King Diamond and Darkthrone as a kid in Poland, forming his first band and becoming immersed in the country's chaotic black metal underground, to ultimately taking on the role of guitarist and vocalist in Terrestrial Hospice. After that, it's on to the Weekly News Rant, where I round up the latest singles by Lugubrious Garment, Azarath, Enslaved, Hatesphere and Sarcator for judgment. I'm also answering your questions, including social media's impact on the metal scene, Blackie Lawless' alleged use of backing tracks, and the new project Chants featuring former Gaerea guitarist Miguel Vanziller. I also reveal my five favourite video game soundtracks and games, list some of the best newer Norwegian black metal bands, lament the Springboks' defeat to the Wallabies, and give you my thoughts on the new Resident Evil movie. Plus: One-man black metal project Diem Mortis features on this week's Unsanctioned Filth segment. Featured Bands Terrestrial Hospice: https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/  Diem Mortis:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCVe8t2BLAzehoaY4nt0KnQ  Bestia Arcana:  https://bestia-arcana.bandcamp.com/    Visit intothenecrosphere.com for playlists and more. Subscribe for weekly black and death metal interviews, news rants and reviews. Follow on X, Instagram and Facebook, and check out the Horsemen of the Podcasting Apocalypse: Horrorwolf 666, Iblis Manifestations, Everything Went Black, Necromaniacs and The Sol Nox Podcast.  

Fluent Fiction - Norwegian: Treasure Hunt in Oslofjorden: A Tale of Courage and Unity Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/no/episode/2026-09-29-07-38-19-no Story Transcript:No: Ved kanten av Oslofjorden står et gammelt, forlatt lager.En: At the edge of the Oslofjorden stands an old, abandoned warehouse.No: Vind og regn har tæret på bygningen i mange år.En: Wind and rain have worn down the building for many years.No: Taket er delvis kollapset, og det en gang sterke treverket er svakt og råtnet.En: The roof is partially collapsed, and the once strong wood is weak and rotted.No: Det er høst, og de nakne grenene rasler i vinden.En: It is autumn, and the bare branches rustle in the wind.No: Bladene ligger som et teppe på bakken, gulbrune og sprø.En: The leaves lie like a carpet on the ground, yellow-brown and brittle.No: Sindre, Kaja, og Mikkel står ved inngangen til lageret.En: Sindre, Kaja, and Mikkel stand at the entrance to the warehouse.No: Sindre er på jakt etter sin bestemors gamle brosje.En: Sindre is searching for his grandmother's old brooch.No: Det er en familiearv som forsvant for flere tiår siden.En: It is a family heirloom that disappeared several decades ago.No: Han har hørt historier om at brosjen ble gjemt her, i denne labyrinten av rom og gale trapper.En: He has heard stories about the brooch being hidden here, in this labyrinth of rooms and crooked stairs.No: "Vi må være forsiktige," sier Kaja med engstelse i stemmen.En: "We have to be careful," says Kaja with anxiety in her voice.No: Hun ser rundt seg, bekymret for hva som kan skje inne i det ustabile bygget.En: She looks around, worried about what might happen inside the unstable building.No: "Det er ikke trygt her.En: "It's not safe here."No: "Mikkel, med et lite smil om munnen, holder en lommelykt klar.En: Mikkel, with a small smile on his face, holds a flashlight ready.No: Han elsker en god utfordring.En: He loves a good challenge.No: "Ingen fare.En: "No worries.No: Jeg er ganske flink til å løse gåter.En: I'm pretty good at solving puzzles.No: Kanskje vi finner noe spennende.En: Maybe we'll find something exciting."No: "På innsiden er lufta kald og fuktig.En: Inside, the air is cold and damp.No: Det er som verden har glemt dette stedet.En: It's as if the world has forgotten this place.No: De går sakte, tråkker forsiktig for ikke å vekke farlige spøkelser av fortiden.En: They walk slowly, treading carefully so as not to awaken dangerous ghosts of the past.No: Sindre leder an, bestemt på å finne det de leter etter.En: Sindre leads the way, determined to find what they are searching for.No: Lageret er stort, med mange gjemte hjørner.En: The warehouse is large, with many hidden corners.No: Sindre stopper opp foran et slitt trebord.En: Sindre stops in front of a worn wooden table.No: "Jeg tror det er her," sier han.En: "I think it's here," he says.No: Han har kartet over gamle minner i hodet sitt.En: He has the map of old memories in his mind.No: Mikkel lyser rundt med sin lommelykt.En: Mikkel shines his flashlight around.No: "Ser du noe rart?En: "Do you see anything strange?"No: " spør han og retter lyset mot gulvet.En: he asks, pointing the light at the floor.No: Der, midt på gulvet, er et lite panel.En: There, in the middle of the floor, is a small panel.No: "Hva er det der?En: "What's that there?"No: "Spennende og samtidig litt skremt, bøyer Sindre seg ned.En: Excited and slightly scared at the same time, Sindre bends down.No: Han åpner panelet forsiktig, men plutselig begynner gulvet å knake og dirre.En: He opens the panel carefully, but suddenly the floor begins to creak and tremble.No: Kaja gisper og tar et steg tilbake.En: Kaja gasps and takes a step back.No: "Vær forsiktig, Sindre!En: "Be careful, Sindre!"No: ""Sindre, ikke ta noen sjanser," sier hun stadig mer engstelig.En: "Sindre, don't take any chances," she says, increasingly anxious.No: Men Sindre fortsetter, dratt mot hemmeligheten han aner ligger skjult.En: But Sindre continues, drawn towards the secret he senses is hidden.No: Timberverket gir fra seg et farlig knak, men Sindre løsner låsen og finner brosjen, skinnende og vakker under år med støv.En: The timber lets out a dangerous creak, but Sindre loosens the lock and finds the brooch, shiny and beautiful under years of dust.No: "Jeg har den!En: "I have it!"No: " roper han triumferende.En: he shouts triumphantly.No: Men i samme øyeblikk hører de et høyt brak.En: But at the same moment, they hear a loud crash.No: Gulvet gir etter.En: The floor gives way.No: "Kaja, hjelp meg!En: "Kaja, help me!"No: " roper Sindre febrilsk.En: shouts Sindre frantically.No: Kaja reagerer lynraskt, klamrer seg til kanten samtidig som hun holder fast i Sindre, og Mikkel stiger til unnsetning.En: Kaja reacts lightning-fast, clinging to the edge while holding onto Sindre, and Mikkel rushes to the rescue.No: Med forente krefter drar de Sindre opp.En: With combined strength, they pull Sindre up.No: Treverket splintres ved føttene deres, men de klarer å trekke seg bort i sikkerhet.En: The wood splinters beneath their feet, but they manage to pull away to safety.No: De snubler ut av lageret, uten pust, men i live.En: They stumble out of the warehouse, breathless but alive.No: Sindre holder brosjen trygt i hånden sin, takknemlig.En: Sindre holds the brooch safely in his hand, grateful.No: Gjennom kaoset har han lært verdien av samarbeid og å lytte til de som ønsker å beskytte ham.En: Through the chaos, he has learned the value of cooperation and listening to those who wish to protect him.No: Kaja ler lettet mens hun omfavner broren.En: Kaja laughs with relief as she hugs her brother.No: "Neste gang, kanskje vi ikke utfordrer skjebnen på denne måten, hva?En: "Next time, maybe we won't tempt fate this way, right?"No: "Sindre smiler, mer ydmyk enn før.En: Sindre smiles, more humble than before.No: "Ja, kanskje.En: "Yes, maybe.No: Takk for at dere var der for meg.En: Thank you for being there for me."No: "De tre vennene står i den kalde høstluften, glade for å være ute og sammen, med en arv reddet og en leksjon lært.En: The three friends stand in the cold autumn air, happy to be outside and together, with an heirloom saved and a lesson learned.No: Ute ved fjorden er alt stille igjen, som om fortiden har fått hvile i fred.En: Out by the fjord, everything is quiet again, as if the past has been allowed to rest in peace. 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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today's podcast takes us to Oslo, Norway, for a very special conversation with Christian Sinding, the former CEO of one of the industry's leading alternative asset managers, EQT.Christian's hometown of Oslo provided an ideal setting to showcase both the Nordic heritage that represents EQT's DNA and the global ambitions of the firm (and one of its portfolio companies, 1X) that is looking to fund Europe's first €1T company. Christian has been one of the leaders in the alternative asset management industry. He was most recently the CEO of EQT, where he steered the firm on an impressive growth path as a public company and helped scale the firm to almost €300B AUM. He's now focused on another ambitious project: the Scaleup Europe Fund, a fund that EQT is managing and has support from the European Commission to invest in Europe's most promising technology companies. With 1X Tech's NEO humanoid robot joining us for part of the discussion, Christian and I had a fascinating conversation about the past, present, and future of alternative asset management and Europe's technology ecosystem. Christian and I discussed:The evolution of EQT and alternative asset management.What Europe needs in order to fund the future.How Europe can harmonize its capital markets infrastructure.What it will take to create the €1T company.What it means for companies to have global ambition.The what, why, and how behind EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund.Why EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund invested in ICEYE and Lovable.Why EQT invested in 1X.How Christian's “why not” attitude can take Europe's technology ecosystem to the next level.Come for the conversation with Christian, stay until the end to meet NEO.BioChristian Sinding is an Institutional Partner at EQT with nearly 30 years of experience at the firm. He served as CEO and Managing Partner from 2019 to May 2025, during which EQT quadrupled in size, becoming the fourth-largest company listed on the Swedish stock exchange.As CEO, Christian oversaw EQT's public listing on Nasdaq Stockholm in 2019 and guided the firm's development as a publicly listed organization, with a strong focus on governance, transparency and long-term, responsible ownership.Prior to becoming CEO, Christian served as Head of EQT Equity from 2011, where he played a central role in building EQT's core investment franchise and expanding the firm's international footprint. Under his leadership, EQT scaled from a market value of approximately €6 billion at listing to around €40 billion in 2025, further strengthening its position as a global leader in private markets.Christian chairs the EQT Council and the Global Investment Forum, serves as Chair of the Investment Committee for the Scaleup Europe fund, and serves on the Investment Committees for EQT Equity and EQT Future. He is also a board member of the EQT Foundation, supporting EQT's long-term societal engagement.Christian brings deep experience in leadership, governance, public markets and long-term value creation, with a focus on resilience and partnering with founders and management teams to build durable, globally competitive businesses.Thanks, Christian, for sharing your passion, expertise, and wisdom about private markets and building companies and for such a fascinating conversation.Show Notes00:00 Meet NEO, the 1X Robot00:06 Europe's $10B Gap00:18 The “Why Not” Mindset00:29 Lovable and The Trillion Euro Ambition01:37 A Message From Our Sponsor, Ultimus Fund Solutions02:35 Welcome Christian Sinding02:40 Nordic Edge on Innovation05:38 EQT Origins and DNA08:01 Inspiring Change Not Control08:36 Full Potential Planning10:46 Troika Model Explained13:42 Winning After the IPO16:14 Capital Markets Playbook20:56 Why Venture and Growth28:44 Europe's Innovation Gap28:56 Politics Push Reform29:37 Why Europe Can Win30:47 Building Bigger Markets31:18 A European Nasdaq Dream32:28 From Local To Global33:36 Founder Ambition Shifts34:40 Lovable Trillion Dollar Vision35:32 EU Inc And Capital Reforms36:56 Private Longer Needs Capital37:52 Scaleup Europe Fund Explained39:53 What Makes It Different43:02 Defining Success And Flywheel46:47 The “Why Not” Mentality48:58 Some Time With NEO, The 1X RobotA Word from Our Sponsor, UltimusThis episode of Alt Goes Mainstream is brought to you by Ultimus, the full-service fund administrator and transfer agent powering asset managers in private and public markets. As alts go mainstream, you need real expertise to handle complex fund structures, connect with key distribution partners, and handle sophisticated compliance, reporting, and transparency demands.That's Ultimus: high-tech, high-touch solutions for over 450 clients and 2,500 funds with $775B in assets under administration. Backed by an expert team of over 1,200 employees, they place client service at the core of their business, helping you navigate complexity during your fund structuring or launch and then supporting you through every stage of growth. Whether you're already in the market or thinking about entering private wealth, you can trust their team's deep expertise in retail alternatives to help you reach your goals.Learn more at ultimusfundsolutions.com or email info@ultimusfundsolutions.com.We thank Ultimus for their support of alts going mainstream.Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

ཁ་སང་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༩ ཚེས་ ༢༨ ཉིན་ནས་དབུ་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་དེ་རིང་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༢༩ བར་ཉིན་གྲངས་གཉིས་རིང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ཤེས་རིག་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ཁང་གསར་པའི་ནང་དུ།  བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དང་ཤེས་ཡོན་སློབ་སྟོན་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གཅིག་ལྕོགས་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཐེངས་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་འཚོགས་ཡོད་པ་དང་འབྲེལ།  ལྷན་ཚོགས་དབུ་འབྱེད་ཀྱི་མཛད་སྒོའི་ཐོག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་གསར་པ་བཀའ་ཟུར་ཐུབ་བསྟུན་ལུང་རིགས་མཆོག་གིས།  ལྷན་ཚོགས་ངོས་ནས་གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་དེ་ཚོགས་མི་སྒེར་སོ་སོའི་ངོས་ནས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ལ་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་པ་ཞིག་དང་ཡིད་ཆེས་ཡོད་པ་ཞིག་གནང་དགོས་གལ་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་འདུག རྩ་བའི་ཉིན་གྲངས་གཉིས་རིང་འཚོགས་པའི་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དང་ཤེས་ཡོན་སློབ་སྟོན་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གཅིག་ལྕོགས་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཐེངས་བཅུ་བཞི་པའི་ཐོག  །དེ་སྔོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་བའི་གྲོས་ཆོད་ཁག་ལག་བསྟར་ཇི་ཙམ་བྱུང་ཡོད་མེད་སྐོར་གོ་བསྡུར་སྦྱང་བཤད་དང་།  ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་སྐུ་ཚབ་ནས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་ལ་གཟིགས་སྐོར་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་བསྐྱོད་ལས་བསྡོམས་སྐོར་ལེགས་ཉེས་དགོངས་འཆར།  དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་རིག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དཔེ་དེབ་གསུམ་དཔར་བསྐྲུན་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད་པ་དེ་དག་གྲོས་གཞི་རེ་རེའི་ངོ་བོའི་ཐོག་རིམ་པའི་གྲོས་བསྡུར་དང་།  ཚོགས་མི་གསུམ་ལས་གྲུབ་པའི་དཔེ་དེབ་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་ཚོགས་མི་གཅིག་སྐུ་ཚེ་མ་ཟིན་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་བྱུང་བར་ཚོགས་མི་གསར་པ་བསྐོ་བཞག  །རྒྱ་ནག་གི་མི་རིགས་མཐུན་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་ཁྲིམས་གསར་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་ཁྲིམས་ཡིག་དེའི་དོན་ཚན་གཉིས་པར་གདོང་ལེན་གྱིས་གོ་བསྡུར་སྦྱང་བཤད།  སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་གི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་གི་གྲངས་འབོར་ཉུང་དུ་འགྲོ་བཞིན་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་དང་སློབ་གྲྭ་གནས་མི་གནས་སྐོར་དང་།  དགེ་རྒན་གྱི་སྤུས་ཚད་ཡར་རྒྱས་གཏོང་ཕྱོགས་སྐོར་སྟངས་འཛིན་ཇི་ལྟར་གནང་གི་ཡིན་མིན་བཅས་ཁྱོན་གྲོས་གཞི་ཁག་བཅུའི་ཐོག་གྲོས་བསྡུར་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ཁ་སང་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དབུ་འབྱེད་ཀྱི་མཛད་སྒོའི་ཐོག་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་དབུས་པའི་ཤེས་རིག་བཀའ་བློན་ཨོ་རྒྱན་བསྟན་འཛིན་མཆོག་དང་།  བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོིན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་གསར་པ་བཀའ་ཟུར་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ལུང་རིགས་མཆོག  །དེ་བཞིན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཁོངས་སུ་ཚོགས་མི་གསར་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་བྱང་རྩེ་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ཚན་རིག་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱི་འགན་འཛིན་དགེ་བཤེས་བློ་གྲོས་བཟང་པོ་ལགས་དང་། མ་སུ་རི་བོད་ཁྱིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་འགན་འཛིན་རིག་འཛིན་ཟླ་བ་ལགས། སམ་བྷོ་ཊ་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་འགན་འཛིན་གཞོན་པ་ངག་སྒྲོན་ལགས།  ཤེས་རིག་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་དེང་རབས་ཚན་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་འཇམ་དབྱངས་ལགས་དང་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་ཚན་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་དངོས་གྲུབ་བསྟན་པ་ལགས།  མ་ཟད་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་སྤྱི་ཟུར་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ལགས་དང་།  སྤྱི་ཟུར་ཉི་མ་དོན་གྲུབ་ལགས།  དགེ་ངག་དབང་ལྷ་མོ་ལགས་བཅས་བཀའ་ཤག་གིས་བསྐོ་བཞག་གནང་བའི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་དབུས་པའི་ཚོགས་མི་ ༤ དང་མཚན་གནས་རྗེས་དྲན་གྱི་ཚོགས་མི་ ༧ བསྡོམས་པའི་ཁྱོན་ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་ ༡༡ ནས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་འདུག སྐབས་དེར་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོིན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་བཀའ་ཟུར་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ལུང་རིགས་མཆོག་གིས།  བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་དགོས་པའི་ཐོག་མའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་དང་། རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས།  གྲུབ་འབྲས་སྐོར་ཞིབ་ཕྲའི་གནས་ཚུལ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དང་འབྲེལ།  ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་ཚོའི་ངོས་ནས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་དང་། ཕ་མ། སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སློབ་གསོ་གནང་དགོས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་དུས།  ཐོག་མར་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་རྣམས་ནས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ལ་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་པ་ཞིག་དང་ཡིད་ཆེས་དགོས་པ་ཞིག་ངེས་པར་དུ་ཡོད་དགོས་སྐོར་གསུངས་སོང་།   དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་རིག་བཀའ་བློན་ཨོ་རྒྱན་བསྟན་འཛིན་མཆོག་གིས།  བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཐོག་མར་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༤ ལོར་གཏན་འབེབས་ཀྱིས་ ༢༠༠༥ ལོར་དཔེ་སྟོན་སློབ་གྲྭ་གསར་འཛུགས་བརྒྱུད་གྲུབ་འབྲས་ཡག་པོ་ཐོན་ཡོད་པ་དེ་ལྟར་ཡང་།  ཕྱིའི་གནས་སྟངས་མང་པོ་ཞིག་གི་རྐྱེན་པས་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཀྱི་དགོངས་གཞི་ལྟར་ཆ་ཚང་བ་ཞིག་ལག་བསྟར་གནང་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་མེད་པ་རིགས་ཡོད་ཚེ་དེ་དག་སྐོར་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ངོས་ནས་བཀའ་བསྡུར་ལྷུག་པོ་ཡོང་བའི་རེ་འདུན་བཏོན་པ་དང་།  གཙོ་ཆེས་ཤོས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་དང་ཕ་མ་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ལ་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་པ་བཟོ་དགོས་གལ་དེ་གནད་འགག་ཆེན་པོ་ཆགས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད།  བཀའ་ཤག་གིས་ཉེ་ལམ་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་གཅེས་སྲུང་གི་རྩ་འཛིན་དང་ལམ་སྟོན་ཐོག་ཤེས་རིག་ལས་ཁུངས་གཙོས་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་སོ་སོའི་ངོས་ནས་གང་གནང་དགོས་སྐོར་དགོངས་བཞེས་གནང་དགོས་པ་དང་།  སློབ་གྲྭའི་གྲངས་དང་སློབ་ཕྲུག་གི་གྲངས་འབོར་ལ་དཔག་པའི་དགོས་མཁོ་དང་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་མཁོ་སྤྲོད་ཇི་ལྟར་གནང་དགོས་སྐོར་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ངོས་ནས་དགོངས་འཆར་གནང་སྐྱོང་ཡོང་བའི་རེ་འདུན་བཏོན་གནང་སོང་།  མ་ཟད་དབུ་འབྱེད་ཀྱི་མཛད་སྒོའི་ཐོག་སྐུ་མགྲོན་གཙོ་བོ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་གིས།  བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དེ་ཉིད་ད་ལྟའི་གནས་སྟངས་དང་མཐུན་པར་བྱེད་དེ་རང་སྐྱོང་གི་ངོ་བོ་ཞིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་དགོས་མེད་ཐད་སྐྱོན་དང་ཕན་ཡོན་ཇི་ཡོད་སྐོར་དགོངས་བཞེས་གནང་དགོས་གལ་དང་།  ད་ལྟའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་འགྱུར་བ་དང་མི་འབོར་སྤོ་ཤུགས་སོགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས་བོད་པའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཁག་གི་ནང་སློབ་ཕྲུག་གི་གྲངས་འབོར་ཉུང་དུ་འགྲོ་བཞིན་པའི་དངོས་ཡོད་གནས་སྟངས་གཞི་ལ་བཞག་ནས་དགོངས་པ་བཞེས་དགོས་པ་མ་ཟད།  ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ཡུལ་གྲུ་ཁག་ཏུ་ཡོད་པའི་བོད་པའི་སློབ་གྲྭའི་གནས་སྟངས་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས་སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་དག་གི་ནང་ཤེས་ཡོན་སློབ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་ཐབས་ལམ་གསར་པ་འཚོལ་དགོས་གལ་སྐོར་དང་།  […] The post བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དང་ཤེས་ཡོན་སློབ་སྟོན་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གཅིག་ལྕོགས་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཐེངས་བཅུ་བཞི་པ། appeared first on vot.

རྒྱལ་གཅེས་དཔའ་བོ་བློ་དགའ་རང་བཙན་ལགས་ཀྱིས་འདི་ལོའི་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ ཚེས་ ༢ ཉིན་བོད་བསྟན་སྲིད་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་ཨ་རིའི་ནིའུ་ཡོག་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་རྒྱལ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མདུན་ཐང་དུ་སྐུ་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་བཏང་རྗེས། ནིའུ་ཡོག་གཙོས་པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ས་གནས་གང་སར་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་དང་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་རྦ་རླབས་གསར་པ་ཞིག་གཏོད་པ་དེ་ཉིད་ད་ཆ་ཕྲན་བུས་ཉམས་ཞན་དུ་ཕྱིན་པ་མངོན་རྒྱུ་ཡོད་ནའང་། བོད་མི་སྒེར་པ་ཚོས་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་བརྒྱུད་ནས་བོད་དེ་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་མངོན་གསལ་དུ་གནས་པར་བྱེད་པའི་འབད་བརྩོན་མཚམས་ཆད་མེད།  དེའང་ཉེ་ཆར་བོད་མི་ཞིག་གིས་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྡི་ལི་ནས་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལར་ཞི་བའི་གོམ་བགྲོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ཞིག་ཁ་སང་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་བ་དང་། དེ་བཞིན་བོད་མི་གཞན་ཞིག་གིས་གནད་དོན་འདི་ཐད་ཀར་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་གཞུང་གི་ཆེས་མཐོའི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་བར་བསླེབས་ཐུབ་པ་གནང་སྟེ་བོད་དོན་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཡོང་བའི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བཞིན་པ་རེད་འདུག རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ཧོན་སུར་རབ་རྒྱས་གླིང་དུ་གནས་སྡོད་གནང་མཁན་ལོ་ན་ ༥༩ ལ་སོན་པའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཐག་ཆོད་ལགས་ཀྱིས་ཉེ་ཆར་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༢༠ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྡི་ལིའི་བོད་མི་གཞིས་སྒར་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་ནས་བཞུགས་སྒར་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལའི་བར་བོད་དོན་དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་དཔའ་བོ་བློ་དགའ་རང་བཙན་ལགས་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་ཐོག་ཡ་ལན་གཙང་མ་གནང་མེད་པ་དང་དྲང་བདེན་བྱུང་མེད་པའི་གནད་དོན་སོགས་ཀྱི་དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས་ཆེད་ཞི་བའི་གོམ་བགྲོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ཞིག་འགོ་འཛུགས་གནང་བ་ལྟར། ཁ་སང་དགོང་མོར་ཁོང་བཞུགས་སྒར་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལའི་མེག་གྷན་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་དུ་བདེ་འབྱོར་དང་སྦྲགས་ལས་འགུལ་མཇུག་སྒྲིལ་གནང་སོང་། འདི་ག་གསར་འགོད་པས་སྐབས་དེར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཐག་ཆོད་ལགས་སུ་བཅར་འདྲི་ཞུས་པར་ཁོང་གིས་ད་ལྟའི་ཆར་སྐད་འབོད་དང་གོམ་བགྲོད་སོགས་ཀྱི་བོད་དོན་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ནང་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་མཁན་གཙོ་བོ་ནི་བོད་མི་ལོ་ན་བགྲེས་པ་ཚོ་ཡིན་པ་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་དང་སྦྲགས། མ་འོངས་པར་བོད་དོན་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ནང་བོད་མི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གང་མང་གནང་དགོས་གལ་ཆེ་བ་ཡིན་སྐོར་གསུངས་སོང་། ཞི་བའི་གོམ་བགྲོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་མཇུག་སྒྲིལ་དང་སྦྲགས། དེ་རིང་སྔ་དྲོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཐག་ཆོད་ལགས་སུ་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་མཇལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་ཡོད་པ་དང་།  མཇལ་ཁ་གྲུབ་མཚམས་སུ་ཁོང་གིས་དེ་རིང་༸སྐུ་མདུན་མཇལ་ཁ་ཞུ་རྒྱུའི་གོ་སྐབས་བྱུང་བ་དེ་སྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་དང་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་ནས་ཀྱང་ཡག་པོ་རེད་ཅེས་བཀའ་གནང་བྱུང་སྐོར་གསུངས་སོང་། རྩ་བའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཐག་ཆོད་ལགས་ཀྱི་ཞི་བའི་གོམ་བགྲོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་བཞིན་ཁྱོན་ཉིན་གྲངས་ ༨ འགོར་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཁོང་ལྟ་བུ་ཡིན་ན་དེ་སྔ་རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ཀར་ནཱ་ཊ་ཀ་མངའ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་ས་སྦེང་ལོར་ནས་ཧོན་སུར་བར་བོད་དོན་དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས་ཀྱི་གོམ་བགྲོད་ལས་འགུལ་ལ་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་མྱོང་མཁན་ཡང་ཡིན་པ་རེད། ཕྱོགས་མཚུངས་ཁ་སང་ཁེ་ན་ཊའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོ་གནས་བཞུགས་གཡུང་དྲུང་བསྟན་འཛིན་ལགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱལ་ས་ཨོ་ཊ་ཝ་ལ་ཆེད་བཅར་གྱིས་ཡུལ་དེའི་ཕྱི་སྲིད་བློན་ཆེན་མཆོག་གི་སྲིད་བྱུས་ལམ་སྟོན་པ་ལྕམ་ Isabelle Buchanan ལགས་དང་ལྷན་མཇལ་འཕྲད་ཀྱིས་གཙོ་བོ་རྒྱལ་གཅེས་དཔའ་བོ་བློ་དགའ་རང་བཙན་ལགས་ཀྱི་ཨ་རིའི་ནིའུ་ཡོག་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་རྒྱལ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མདུན་དུ་སྐུ་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་བཏང་བའི་གནད་དོན་སྐོར་ཞུ་གཏུགས་གནང་འདུག གཡུང་དྲུང་བསྟན་འཛིན་ལགས་ཀྱིས་འདི་གའི་གསར་འགོད་པར་བརྗོད་དོན་ལྟར་ན། ཁོང་རང་ཉིད་ཁེ་ན་ཊའི་ཕྱི་སྲིད་བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་སྲིད་བྱུས་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་ལྕམ་ Isabelle Buchanan ལགས་དང་ལྷན་ཁྱོན་སྐར་མ་ ༢༥ རིང་བཀའ་མོལ་ཞུ་རྒྱུའི་གོ་སྐབས་བྱུང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། ལྷག་དོན་ཡིག་ཐོག་བརྒྱུད་ནས་དཔའ་བོ་བློ་དགའ་རང་བཙན་ལགས་ཀྱིས་སྐུ་ལུར་མེར་བསྲེགས་བཏང་བའི་གནད་དོན་དང་ཁོང་གི་བཞག་པའི་སྐར་མ་ ༦ གི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་ཞུ་གཏུགས་གནང་རྒྱུ་བྱུང་སོང་ཞེས་གསུངས་བ་དང་སྦྲགས། འཛམ་གླིང་ཡུལ་གྲུ་ཁག་ཏུ་བཞུགས་པའི་བོད་མི་རྣམས་ནས་མི་སེར་གྱི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ལེན་པའི་ཐོག་ནས་གནས་ཡུལ་གཞུང་ལ་བོད་དོན་སྐོར་ཞུ་གཏུགས་གནང་དགོས་གལ་ཡིན་པ་དང་བོད་མི་རྣམས་ནས་རྡོག་རྩ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་ཐོག་ནས་འཐབ་རྩོད་གནང་རོགས་ཞེས་ནན་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། The post རྒྱལ་གཅེས་དཔའ་བོ་བློ་དགའ་རང་བཙན་ལགས་ལ་རྗེས་དྲན་དང་འབྲེལ་བོད་མི་སྒེར་པ་ཁག་གཅིག་གིས་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བ། appeared first on vot.

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You promised yourself you wouldn't become your mother. Then your kid won't put their shoes on for the third time, and the voice that comes out isn't really yours. In this episode, I talk with Terese, a parent who grew up walking on eggshells around a mother who yelled often.  She would yell because Terese had her school books on the dinner table - and then after dinner, she would yell because the books were in the living room.  Terese knew she wanted to raise her own kids differently, but she didn't have a model for what that would look like.  She shares what it took to finally stop hearing her mom's words come out of her own mouth, how she navigates her kids fighting with calm and confidence - and what she says to her kids on the nights it doesn't go as well. We hear how she talks to herself in the moments right before she'd normally snap, and how her son learned to apologize for his mistakes without being asked or told. Questions this episode will answer What is breaking generational patterns? It starts with catching yourself mid-reaction (and eventually before your reaction), and recognizing where it came from - often a hurt you experienced in childhood.  Healing that pain, and learning new ways to be with your kids that meets both of your needs, actually breaks the cycle. How do I stop yelling when I'm angry? Staying logical or repeating yourself more calmly rarely holds once a kid is already melting down. Instead, try to notice when you're just a little bit agitated - your shoulders are tight; your fists are clenched; there's a lump in your throat.  That's the moment to remind yourself of what matters most to you - your relationship with your kids.   How do you resolve conflict between siblings? Taking the toy away ends the fight but doesn't teach anything. When you can find out what need each child is trying to meet (e.g. autonomy, connection), you can find strategies to help both of them meet their needs.  That's how they learn how to solve their own conflicts - without you refereeing! How do you apologize to your kids after yelling? Many parents don't want to bring up a difficult issue again - they worry that reliving it will hurt their kids more (and it's uncomfortable, too!).  But apologizing repairs the relationship and makes it stronger than it was before. How do you teach a child that it's okay to make mistakes? When kids see you make a mistake and own up to it, they learn that everyone makes mistakes.  Then when they make a mistake, when you respond with curiosity instead of anger, even when you feel frustrated, tells your child that no matter what happens, you'll work to find a solution that works for everyone. How do I quiet my inner critic as a parent? The voice telling you you're failing usually isn't yours originally - it's one you heard often in your childhood.  When you hear the voice say “You're a terrible parent,” try adding: “I'm thinking that I'm a terrible parent.” This creates distance between you and the idea, which makes it easier for you to see that there are other possible explanations for what's happening. What you'll learn in this episode What made Terese realize the way she was talking to her kids was starting to sound like her own mother, and what she did about itWhy trying to be logical and calm in the moment didn't work for her, and what didHow identifying her kids' needs, instead of taking the toy away, helps them navigate fights more easilyWhat Terese says to her kids on the far fewer occasions when she still yells, that they now say to other people as wellThe specific phrase Terese still uses to quiet the voice telling her she's a bad mom Taming Your Triggers is open for enrollment There's no script that will make you stop having big reactions to your kids.  When you work to understand your triggers with a group of parents who are invested in doing this alongside you, you can make much more progress, much faster.   The Taming Your Triggers workshop helps you see why you feel triggered in the first place (whether you yell, clam up, or walk away), heal those hurts, and be in relationship with your kids in a way that's aligned with your values. Click the banner to learn more. Jump to highlights 01:44 Introduction to Terese: Swedish, raised partly in Canada, now living in Norway, a teacher and mother of three 03:14 What led Terese to join Taming Your Triggers: snapping at her kids and hearing her mom's voice 04:16 Terese describes her relationship with her mom as a teenager, and feeling like she couldn't exist in her own home 06:22 Naming the peacekeeping role Terese held as a child, always trying to prevent her mom's dysregulation 08:43 Reframing "I'm a bad mom" into "I'm thinking I'm a bad mom," and treating self-care as a need in its own right 11:16 How Terese repairs with her kids differently than her mom ever did with her 13:02 A story about Terese's son voluntarily apologizing to a friend, unprompted 15:10 What's behind her son opening up more: feeling safe to tell the truth even when he's messed up 17:26 What community support added to the experience, beyond just information 19:46 An invitation to join the next Taming Your Triggers cohort

ཡོང་རྒྱུའི་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ ཚེས་ ༡ སྟེ་རྒྱ་ནག་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ལོ་ངོ་ ༧༧ འཁོར་གྱི་ཡོད་པ་བསྟུན།  ཁ་སང་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༢༧ ཉིན་ཨོ་གླིང་དུ་བོད་མི་ཚུད་པའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་བཙན་གནོན་འོག་མྱོང་བཞིན་པའི་མི་རིགས་བཅས་ལྷན་འཛོམས་ཀྱིས་ངོ་རྒོལ་སྐད་འབོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ཞིག་སྤེལ་འདུག རྩ་བའི་རྒྱ་ནག་དམར་པོའི་རིང་ལུགས་པ་ཚོས་དེ་སྔ་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༤༩ ལོའི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ ཚེས་ ༡ ཉིན་སྐབས་དེའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་གོ་མིང་ཏང་སྲིད་གཞུང་མགོ་རྟིང་བསློགས་ཏེ་རྒྱ་ནག་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཞེས་སྲིད་གཞུང་གསར་པ་འགོ་འཛུགས་བྱས་ཡོད་པ་དང་།  ཉིན་མོ་དེ་རྒྱ་ནག་གུང་ཁྲན་མང་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ལོ་འཁོར་དུས་དྲན་ཞིག་ཏུ་སྲུང་བརྩི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ཀྱང་།  སྲིད་གཞུང་དེའི་འོག་མི་གྲངས་ས་ཡ་མང་པོའི་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཤོར་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས།  རྒྱ་ནག་དམར་ཤོག་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ལྟ་སྤྱོད་མི་མཐུན་མཁན་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་མང་གཙོ་དོན་གཉེར་བ་ཚོའི་ངོས་ནས་ཉིན་མོ་དེ་བཞིན་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་སྐྱེད་དང་སྦྲགས་ཏེ་ “Fall of China Day” ཞེས་རྒྱ་ནག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཉམས་རྒུད་དུ་སོང་བའི་ཉིན་མོར་ངོ་རྒོལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བའི་ཐོག་ནས་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུ་ཡི་ཡོད་པ་རེད།  དེ་ཡང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་དྲྭ་གནས་ཐོག་སྤེལ་བའི་གནས་ཚུལ་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ན།  ཡོང་རྒྱུའི་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ ཚེས་ ༡ སྟེ་རྒྱ་ནག་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ལོ་ངོ་ ༧༧ འཁོར་གྱི་ཡོད་པར།   ཨོ་གླིང་གི་ Sydney གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ནང་ཁ་སང་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༢༧ ཉིན་རྒྱ་ནག་དམར་ཤོག་ཚོགས་པའི་བཙན་གནོན་འོག་མྱངས་པའི་ཨོ་སྟྲེ་ལི་ཡ་དང་ནིའུ་ཛི་ལེནྜ་ཁུལ་དུ་གནས་སྡོད་རྒྱ་རིགས་མཐུན་ཕྱོགས་རུ་ཁག་ནས་སྐབས་དེའི་ཚེ་དེའི་དུས་སུ་རྒྱ་ནག་གུང་ཁྲན་གྱི་དྲག་རྒོལ་འོག་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཤོར་བ་རྣམས་ལ་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་སྐྱེད་དང་ད་ལྟའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྲིད་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་མཚོན་བྱེད་དུ་རྔམ་སྟོན་ཁྲོམ་སྐོར་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ཞིག་སྤེལ་འདུག་པ་དང་།  ཁ་སང་གི་ཉིན་མོ་དེ་བཞིན་དེ་སྔ་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༨༧ ལོར་བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྷ་སར་གདན་ས་གསུམ་གྱི་དགེ་འདུན་པ་ཚོའི་སྣེ་ཁྲིད་འོག་རྒྱ་ནག་དམར་པོའི་གཞུང་ལ་གཞི་རྒྱ་ཆེ་བའི་ངོ་རྒོལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་ཏེ་ལོ་ངོ་ ༣༩ འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན་དང་སྟབས་ཁེལ་ཡོད་པར།  རྔམ་སྟོན་ཁྲོམ་སྐོར་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་དེའི་ནང་ཨོ་གླིང་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་ཁང་གི་རྒྱ་རིགས་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་པ་ཟླ་བ་བཟང་མོ་ལགས་གཙོས་པའི་ Australia Tibet Council ཨོ་སྟྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་བོད་དོན་ལྷན་ཁང་གི་འགན་འཛིན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་བསོད་ནམས་ཚེ་རིང་ལགས།  དེ་བཞིན་ཨོ་སྟྲེ་ལི་ཡའི་ཡུ་གུར་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་ Mehmet ལགས་དང་།  ཧོང་ཀོང་དང་ཐེ་ཝན་གྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་འཐུས་མི་བཅས་ནས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་འདུག སྐབས་དེར་ཨོ་གླིང་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་ཁང་གི་རྒྱ་རིགས་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་པ་ཟླ་བ་བཟང་མོ་ལགས་ཀྱིས།  རྒྱ་ནག་དམར་ཤོག་སྲིད་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་གྱིས་ད་བར་བོད་མི་ ༡༧༠ […] The post རྒྱ་ནག་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ལོ་ངོ་ ༧༧ འཁོར་བར་ངོ་རྒོལ་སྐད་འབོད་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Today on a special UNGA edition of the show, Fareed speaks with the leaders of two nations that have been ardent supporters of Ukraine since the war: Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, of Norway, and President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, about the prospects for peace. Then, Fareed sits down with France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot to discuss France's leadership in pushing for a more integrated and independent Europe, and the surge in French right-wing populism. Later, Remember the "Butcher of Bosnia"? AKA Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb commander convicted of war crimes for his role in the Balkans war of the 1990s? He received a hero's funeral in Serbia with military honors after his death last month. This comes amid a worrying surge in Serbian nationalism. Fareed asks the Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić about it. Finally, Bill Gates joins Fareed to discuss how to mitigate the risks posed by AI and whether there are certain jobs that should always remain in the hands of human beings. Guests: Jonas Gahr Støre (@jonasgahrstore), Alexander Stubb (@alexstubb), Jean-Noël Barrot (@jnbarrot), Aleksandar Vučić (@avucic), Bill Gates (@BillGates) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ESPN FC Crew open the show with a discussion about what Manchester City's punishment should be after being found guilty of 114 charges by the Premier League. What does it mean to get a title stripped? Then, a reaction to Portugal's win over Norway, asking if Portugal are ready to move on from Cristiano Ronaldo, and Germany's loss to Greece as Jurgen Klopp begins his management with the Germany National Team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reaction and discussion on Cristiano Ronaldo being benched as Portugal beat Norway 2-1 in the Nations League while Germany lose to Greece in Klopp's second game.

Inderdaad, opeens bestaat deze podcast al 200 weken. Dank u, dank u. In deze daarom iets speciale aflevering aandacht voor een aards onderwerp; de vreemde lichtverschijnselen in het dorpje Hessdalen in Noorwegen.Hessdalen Lights - UFO's over Norway:https://youtu.be/kU9sUqEQelUHessdalen Valley Of Light:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzrrknc4bYInvestigation & analysis of transient luminous phenomena in the low atmosphere of Hessdalen valley, Norway:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222796277_Investigation_analysis_of_transient_luminous_phenomena_in_the_low_atmosphere_of_Hessdalen_valley_NorwayProject Hessdalen:https://www.hessdalen.org/Optical spectrum analysis of the Hessdalen phenomenon:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228873038_Optical_spectrum_analysis_of_the_Hessdalen_phenomenonAre Hessdalen Lights a Reality, an Illusion, or a Mix of the Two (pp. 590-622):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354862271_JSE_353_Fall_2021Hessdalen lights:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen_lightsBolbliksem (natuurverschijnsel):https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolbliksem_(natuurverschijnsel)Contribution of VLF electromagnetic survey to the investigation of Hessdalen lights (Norway):https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926985124001149The Hessdalen Lights Seen as the Aerial Counterpart of an Unsuspected Subsoil Phenomenon. Is the Earth Harboring a Multimouth Wormhole?https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2965Inspire DIY kit:https://theinspireproject.org/De Zimmerman en Space podcast is gelicenseerd onder een Creative Commons CC0 1.0 licentie.http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Episode 126 with Zach Condon, skateboarder and musician, leader of the band Beirut.Together we discussed his life and career, from growing up in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he picked up his first board in the late 90's; from the ages of 9 til 16 years old skating every day and obsessively watching skate videos; around the same time music becoming another very strong interest, so much so that it eventually became his main focus and skateboarding took a backseat; starting the band “Beirut” in the mid 2000's as a tribute to the Lebanese capital where the east and west meet and cultures collide, a symbol of his very eclectic music inspirations; putting out numerous amazing albums throughout the last 20 years, gaining international and critical acclaim, some of their songs even appearing in skate videos, most famously in Mark Suciu's masterpiece part “Verso” in 2019; to keeping an eye on everything skate related despite not really skating anymore since music became his profession.(00:13) – Intro (01:25) – Starting skateboarding (05:44) – Baker 2G/Pixies (08:00) – Developing an interest for music(11:51) – Being introduced to new music via skate videos(13:42) – When did music “surpass” skateboarding in your life?(26:14) – Why do you think skateboarding “clicked” for you in your teen years? (28:40) – Creating an album vs. a video part(31:24) – Working on “A study of losses” (42:59) – Scoring films (47:32) – “Crunch time” wrapping up an album(50:42) – Unusual instruments(56:28) – The “window” (01:02:46) – Favorite skater-musicians? (01:07:04) – Favorite skater-song pairings (01:12:18) – Getting to know Mark Suciu (01:15:29) – Other skate videos his music is featured in (01:17:00) – Skate media consumption these days(01:21:50) – The “necessity” of having an Instagram account (01:27:51) – Mental health issues while touring (01:34:40) – Living between Berlin and Norway (01:41:32) – Surprise questions from friends(01:41:38) – Patrik Wallner(01:53:31) – Casper Clausen from Efterklang(02:00:50) – Rasmus Stolberg from Efterklang (02:02:37) – Nicholas Petree(02:09:10) – Mouse on Mars(02:11:43) – Chris Stein from Blondie(02:14:22) – Alma Har'El(02:17:03) – Jan Pivoňka(02:24:51) – Viktoria Dalborg (02:33:19) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Super-pregnant writer and comedian Tamara Yajia joins the Andy Richter Call-In Show to talk your TRAVEL TALES! Callers share stories about a handsy sleepwalker on a plane, a prison-break rescue in Nevada, an elderly creep in Norway, and a scary cab driver in Jamaica. Plus, Tamara recalls “Weekend at Bernie's”-ing her friend in Amsterdam. Want to call in for a future episode? Fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER or dial 855-266-2604 with whatever you want to discuss! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It wasn't just Jürgen Klopp who was starting his fresh project last night, but his opposite number too! Xavi's Netherlands side were the first to try their luck against Klopp's Germany, and in the end the points were shared. But what exactly did we learn from the former Liverpool boss' first game in charge?Kevin Hatchard joins Andy to discuss that. Plus, Jorge Jesus keeps Cristiano Ronaldo in the fold for his first game in charge, but only for 67 minutes. And Erling Haaland's brace helps Norway to victory over near neighbours Denmark.Ask us a question on X, Instagram and TikTok, and email us here: otc@footballramble.com.For ad-free shows, head over to our Patreon and subscribe: patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** On The Continent is your definitive podcast for European football. Subscribe for new podcasts every Thursday and Friday throughout the 2026/27 European football season, covering the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Süper Lig, Eredivisie, Liga Portugal and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball have their weekly commentator catch-up. Ali gets richly rewarded at Bournemouth, Ian gets recognised as a famous footballer and John goes walkabout in Nottingham. Hear from Anthony Gordon ahead of England vs Spain in the UEFA Nations League. And who will surge ahead in Clash of the Commentators? Messages and voicenotes welcome on WhatsApp to 08000 289 369 & emails to TCV@bbc.co.uk02:30 Meeting the England players, 05:10 Herr Chapman gets tipped off! 10:25 Does Ali get his cake and eat it? 12:50 John Southall goes Basil Fawlty, 18:10 5 Live commentaries this weekend, 19:20 Anthony Gordon ‘surprised' to be subbed, 30:35 Awkward interviews… 36:00 Clash of the Commentators, 42:10 Unintended pub name of the week, 46:40 Great Glossary of Football Commentary.5 Live / BBC Sounds commentaries: Thu 1945 Portugal v WALES, Sat 1945 ENGLAND v Spain, Sun 1630 Chelsea v Arsenal in WSL, Tue 1945 Czech Republic v ENGLAND, Thu 1945 WALES v Norway.Great Glossary of Football Commentary: DIVISION ONE 50p head Agricultural challenge, Back of the net, Back to square one, Backside and elbows, The Beautiful Game, Booked, Bosman, Bullet header, Caretaker manager, Channel of joy, Checked and cleared, Coupon buster, Cruyff Turn, Cultured/educated left foot, Dead-ball specialist, Draught excluder, Elastico/flip-flap, False nine, Fox in the box, Giving the goalkeeper the eyes, Grub hunter, Head like a biscuit tin, Head like a sheriff's badge, Head tennis, Hibs it, In a good moment, In behind, Lollipop, Magic of the FA Cup, The Maradona, Need one to get in off their backside, Off their line, Olimpico, Onion bag, Panenka, Parachute payment, Park the bus, Perfect hat-trick, Postage stamp, Put his cap on it, Rabona, Roy of the Rovers stuff, Schmeichel-style, Scorpion kick, Spursy, Stick it in the mixer, Sweeper keeper, Taking it to the corner flag, Target man, Tiki-taka, Towering header, Trivela, Where the kookaburra sleeps, Where the owl sleeps, Where the spiders sleep, You could have two goalkeepers in there and they still wouldn't have saved it.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is flabbergasted by EuroSki. Donate to my brain transplant fund to make me more smarter:WhoIain Martin, founder and host of UK-based The Ski Podcast. YouTube here. This is Iain's second appearance on The Storm:Interview dateSeptember 24, 2026Why I interviewed himIf, like me, you're a U.S. American SnoSportSkier, you may find European skiing more than a little baffling. More than 4,000 ski areas spread over dozens of countries with their dozens of languages. Trams and gondolas pop skyward from every other corner in Switzerland or the Pyrenees or Slovenia, as numerous as the strip-mall vape shops and Jesus-Knows-You're-Watching-Porn billboards defecating all over America's roads. The trail markings in Europe are all different colors. Why is no one skiing off the groomers? Who stole all the trees? Why is every ski lift either a tram that looks CGI'd to transport Storm Troopers to a fictional Star Wars Cloud City or a T-bar that looks as though it was hammered together by Yohan in between sheep shearings? Why is the food good and the alcohol cheap? Why do lift tickets not cost more than a semester's tuition at Cornell? And, most baffling of all as we contemplate the growing presence of EuroSki on U.S.-based multimountain passes, why is every ski resort actually 10 or 15 or 100 different ski areas stapled together as the Valley of Grand Domaine de Les Skis?I wish I could be more helpful in answering these questions. So far, I have not been very helpful. I felt like I could get away with just pointing and laughing as Vail and Alterra added a handful of big-time European ski resorts to their rosters, but the numbers have rapidly spiraled: check out the number of Euro ski areas that have joined Epic, Ikon, and Indy since 2018:At first I tried to keep up, but I just sort of surrendered after 2025. I did manage write-ups of Epic Pass additions in Austria, and new Ikon partners in Italy and France, but I never got past more than cursory acknowledgements of Indy's massive haul of Euro partners from Turkey up through the Alps core to Scotland. And I thought, “OK how many gigantic resorts can they have over there it's gotta stop soon right?” But they just kept coming like kaijū in Pacific Rim. The pass-by-pass totals headed into winter 2026-27 are shocking:Here's a country-by-country breakdown that's a bit easier to read:And here's the detailed roster - not all the lifts are filled in because shoot me:This chart is the European equivalent of American college football rankings. It makes no sense, but it must be fun because so many people do it, right?I tried to make a map but it sorta sucks so I'm going to keep trying. I did use the map as a visual aide in the podcast, which is also and always available in audio-only. But if you want to watch above or on YouTube, our conversation will make marginally more sense as I scroll around beneath Iain's narrative.TranscriptsThere are two transcripts. Both are generated by robots. Both are helpful and defective in their own unique ways. I do not proofread either of them.Transcript 1: Click the “transcript” button at the top of this article. You can only see this transcript on a computer. Because I don't know why exactly but everything is getting better and dumber all at once it seems. Anyway, this is the transcript that the robots create when I upload the podcast to the internet. The cool thing about it is that you can click on any block of text and the audio will teleport there instantly. The uncool thing about this transcript is that it does not indicate who is talking at any given moment. Transcript 2: You can read this below. This is the transcript that Zoom creates as we record the podcast. The cool thing about this transcript is that it indicates who is talking at any given moment. The uncool thing about this transcript is that the timestamps do not match the audio. Also, you cannot click on this text to move to the associated point in the audio.ZoomStuart Winchester: My guest today is the founder and host of The Ski Podcast, a UK-based show that just published its 327th episode.00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:56.000Stuart Winchester: He's also a freelance journalist writing for national and specialized press and the owner of a digital marketing consultancy for snow sports. Ian Martin is my guest. He is a good friend of the storm. He has been on the show before and he is here today to help us make sense of Europe. Ian, how you doing today?00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I am really well, Stuart. It's really nice to see you, and thank you for inviting me onto the show.00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:07.000Stuart Winchester: Before we get started, what do you got lined up for this winter? When do you start skiing?00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:23.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: My personal first trip will be out to Les Des Alpes ski resort in France, which I'll be doing in early December. But I will actually be skiing not next weekend, but the one after in one of our indoor snow slopes.00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: in the UK. I'll be skiing in the snowy center, Manchester, so I'll get to get my skis on.00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, cool.00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:40.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, that'll be a lot of fun. Yeah, we have the one right over in New Jersey. I was supposed to go a couple of… a couple weeks ago, but I… something came up, and I wasn't able to make it. Alright, so Ian, let me set this up for the listeners.00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.000Stuart Winchester: And, and…00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:54.000Stuart Winchester: as a baseline for what we're dealing with here. So, US-based passes, meaning Epic, Icon, and Indy. There's also one on Mountain Collective, but it overlaps with… there's two on Mountain Collective that overlap with Icon, so I'.00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:59.000Stuart Winchester: So they have added a total of 61 destinations.00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Mm-hmm.00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.000Stuart Winchester: in 14 European countries.00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.000Stuart Winchester: 13 of those are on Epic.00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.000Stuart Winchester: Nine are on icon.00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:18.000Stuart Winchester: 39 are on Indy. Uh, so… some of those are unlimited on Epic, some you get 5 days, some you get 7. Icon's a pretty standard 7 days, or 5 days, even with the base pass. Indy is 2 days at each.00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, 20 of those destinations are in Austria.00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:31.000Stuart Winchester: 12 are in Switzerland. Uh, 8 are in France, and they're all over the place, but those are the countries with the most. So let me… I wanna actually…00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.000Stuart Winchester: Share on my screen.00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.000Stuart Winchester: a map that I made that could help us as a little guide, although it's not a…00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.000Stuart Winchester: It's not a great map, but I will…00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, okay. Can you, can you see the map?00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I… can see the map, yes.00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:52.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, yeah, I couldn't figure out how to make the…00:09:52.000 --> 00:10:04.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, let me just explain this at a high level. So, I couldn't figure out how to make the text smaller, it's very much a work in progress, but, uh, blue is, uh, the names of the ski areas are by country.00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:19.000Stuart Winchester: And the names of the icons are bypassed. So when you zoom down to Austria, it's Epic, Epic, Indy. Uh, Indy's red, Icon's yellow, uh, Epic is blue. This is one where it really helps to watch the video. If not, we'll explain it, and you don't have to.00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:34.000Stuart Winchester: be watching to understand everything. So, uh, looking at this, Ian, and putting aside my, uh, crappy map design skills, and looking at the full of Europe, from above, from space, as we can do in the future here, uh, where do you even start?00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Well, firstly, I've got to congratulate you on your data. It's just amazing. When you read out all of the different resorts, and the number of countries, and the number of resorts in each country, I've got one of your spreadsheets printed out here, and it's already changed since then. So, staying up to date the whole time is really quite incredible.00:10:53.000 --> 00:11:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: how you manage… how you manage to do that. Um, it is, uh, amazing. In… in respect of the map, there's obviously a lot of ski areas on there, and probably this is going to be better for someone as a research tool.00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:15.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Now, you mentioned that there are 61 countries in total, 61 ski areas in total that are covered on those different passes.00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I was thinking about…00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: what is the best way to kind of go into getting a sense for maybe which ones you should visit? Obviously, it's going to be different for everybody, depending on what kind of pass they have, and I know some people have more than one pass, but I thought that maybe a useful way to do it might be to think of.00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Let's say the hero trip.00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Then maybe somewhere you might go.00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:56.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: for a week, and then somewhere that you might visit if you were… if you were touring, or possibly if you're over for work, and you happen to be roughly in that area to give people a sense of, you know, where it might be worth doing a little side trip to while they were doing that.00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So if you are happy with that structure, I could work from that. Okay, cool.00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.000Stuart Winchester: I love it.00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.000Stuart Winchester: Full speed ahead. Let's do it.00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Okay, cool. So, I think…00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: We've seen more Americans coming over to Europe over the last few years, and that is to do with these. That is to do with the passes. No, it's a pleasure. I mean, I talk to everybody when I'm on a chairlift or in a gondola, and if I hear someone who's from the States or maybe from Canada, I'm always interested to know, you know, why they've come over, and predominantly it's because.00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:12.000Stuart Winchester: Sorry.00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:26.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: they've got the passes. And, you know, I spent a lot of time in Chamonix last winter, and evidently you get a lot of people in Chamonix. Chamonix is one of the ones on the Icon Pass, I believe, as is Zermatt. Now, Chamonix and Zermatt are two amazing destinations. They really are fantastic. You can see them, actually, on the map that you've got in the video now.00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:32.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:46.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:54.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: They're quite close to each other. They're probably about two and a half hours by car apart. You could fly into Geneva for both of them.00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm, okay.00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: They are fantastic resorts, fantastic destinations. They're my two favorites in Europe.00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:20.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But they're not necessarily going to be suitable for everyone. And the reason I say that is Chamonix is incredible. It's in the middle of a very dramatic valley. You have Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe, at 4,800 meters on one side. You can take the Aguille de Midi.00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:35.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Which is the lift that goes up to 3,800 roughly meters. And ski the Valley Blanche from there. Lots of people will have, you know, heard of that very famous off-piste run. It's incredible just to go up to the Aguirre de Midi.00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But in terms of the ski areas itself, they're very disparate. They're not connected, uh, in the same way as we might come onto the Three Valleys, uh, you know, shortly. So…00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:13:49.000 --> 00:14:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you've got to put in a bit of legwork if you're going to go to Chamonix. The connections between them generally involve getting a bus, and even if you're staying right in the center of town, you've got to get a bus.00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:52.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: or maybe a train from one end of the valley to ski the five different areas that you have in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. And I think…00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I'm not 100%, I'm not the expert on the icon passes, but…00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The Icon Pass only covers the lifts that are in that area. There's also a couple of areas which are included on your map there, actually, Megeve and Les Contamines. You can get a lift ticket in Chamonix when I stay there that covers all of those.00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:21.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And you can ski over there as well.00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:48.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, so Mijeve, I'm sorry to interrupt, but Mijeve has been added to the Icon Pass, but it took me so long to sort out even what that meant when they said Mijeve, and even Icon Pass themselves didn't seem to know. We'll get to that mess in a little bit, but Mijeve is on the Icon Pass, uh, you know, along with Shamani, and those are separate buckets of days.00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh so.00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:32.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000Stuart Winchester: Then, like in Tammany, which is part of Mijav, is also on Indy.00:14:52.000 --> 00:15:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, exactly. Megeve isn't really part of Chamonix, but it is covered on that very big pass that you can buy. My point being really that Chamonix is fantastic. It's an amazing town. It has an incredible history.00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's where the first Winter Olympic Games are in 1924. You can get really close to, uh, Mont Blanc. You could ski the Vallee Blanche. There are lots and lots of options for, uh, high mountain skiing, but for a more recreational skier.00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:27.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it's perhaps not as good. If we look at Zermatt, another one, yes, yep.00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:39.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, so let me pause one moment on Chamonix first. So, I want to point out, the Icon Pass, for whatever reason, does not cover the Algo de Midi, or whatever, I'm sure I pronounced it wrong, the big tram. How important is it to just pony up, buy that tram ride anyway?00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yes, okay.00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, I mean, we had… we stayed out there for 2 months last winter, and we had lots of friends come to visit us, and with all of them.00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:56.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: we recommended that you go up there. It really is something quite special, being so high, so close to.00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Mont Blanc itself, but also just for the type of visitors we had, who weren't really expert skiers, to get an insight into the high mountain, because you do see skiers who are heading off down the Valley Blanche, and the Valley Blanche is a relatively accessible off-piste run with a guide.00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: but other skiers who are doing much more hardcore stuff, or climbers who are up there, who are practicing their mountaineering skills. And if you go up the Aguirre de Midi, you get an insight to all of that. I mean, I met some of your American friends who were over, who were.00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Really going for it, going down the Cosmic. When I met them, going up with some friends to the Aguirre-Midi, they were on their second ascent of the day. They'd already gone up, done the Valley Blanche, come back up, and then they were on their way down Cosmic to stay in a refuge for the night.00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.000Stuart Winchester: Of course, yeah.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:51.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I really would recommend it. And yes, it is expensive.00:16:51.000 --> 00:17:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it could even be worth just buying that Montblanc Unlimited ticket in advance, because it's dynamic pricing. It's one of those things where if you buy it in advance, it's less expensive than buying it on the day.00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. And Mont Blanc, just for my listeners, is, I believe, the tallest mountain in Europe.00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, highest mountain in Western Europe. I think it's 4,810 meters.00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.000Stuart Winchester: All right, so over to Zermatt.00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Zermatt, I worked a season there as well. Absolutely beautiful place. Zermatt Matterhorn, as it's known. The Matterhorn is the standout attraction. It is just an incredible looking mountain.00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The village itself, in my opinion, very pretty. Lots of traditional chalets, traditional buildings.00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:55.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: they have controlled development of it. It's not full of skyscrapers. Without going into the details, there was a proposal to build, you know, one recently that really got it dampened down pretty quickly.00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: You can only get there by train. It's a car-free resort, which adds to the charm as well.00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:12.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: really, I would say, if… the only negatives are that it's quite expensive. It is one of the most expensive destinations in Europe.00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There are a lot of, uh, visitors, a bit like Chamonix, who go there not necessarily to ski, but because they want to go and see the Matterhorn, in the same way that you could go up the Agua de Midi in Chamonix. There's a Gornergrat, uh, cog railway.00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: which will take you up, uh, to a fantastic view looking over, uh, the Matterhorn. So, I guess you're competing a little bit with the non-skiers. The ski area itself is better connected than Chamonix. It goes up high. You've also got lifts of skiing up to 3,800 meters.00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: at the Klein Matterhorn area.00:18:49.000 --> 00:19:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: typically they have summer skiing there as well. It's actually closed this summer for a little while because of the weather, but, you know, it's so high, and because of the glacier, they can offer skiing all year round. So, I really do love Zermatt.00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:56.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The only negative would be…00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it's expensive, you know, you just gotta face up to that fact if you want to go there, but it has a cachet and a feel to it that I just, uh, love.00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:11.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:34.000Stuart Winchester: And one thing this map doesn't show is it does interconnect with Turbinia, which is now on Icon Pass, but separate days. So once you cross, if you use the day of Zermatt, even if it's the same day, you cross into Turbinia, you're using another Icon Pass day. It doesn't really matter for most Americans who are visiting anyway.00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:39.000Stuart Winchester: But what do you think about Slovenia? Is it worth it to pop over there?00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, well, interesting you should mention that. So I picked Chamonix and Zermatt as the first two because they are the most well-known.00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:19:47.000 --> 00:20:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But it's not strictly necessary to go to those two places and base yourself there. And you mentioned that, uh, you know, Cervinia is on… did you… did you say Cervinia is on… sorry, which pass again?00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:05.000Stuart Winchester: So, it's on ICON, and the reason I didn't have it…00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah. Okay.00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:12.000Stuart Winchester: called out. It's under Valle de Oesta, Italy, so that includes, uh, Pila, it includes, uh…00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:10.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:19.000Stuart Winchester: Slovenia, it includes Cormier, it includes some other ones, but I made the map fast.00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:35.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, Stuart, you are… you are very well, uh, informed. You're right. I mean, you can see it on the map that we're looking at below us. You can get from Chamonix to Courmayeur very easily through the Mont Blanc tunnel. It's actually a 22 kilometer tunnel, and we skied over in Courmayeur while we were there. Lots of.00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:25.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow.00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:50.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Chamonix, people who are based in Chamonix do go over there, because, uh, although the ski area is limited, there are more trees over there, you know, on a bad weather day, it's a really good place to ski, and it's included on the Mont Blanc Unlimited Pass. And Courmayeur is right at the top.00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:49.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: of the Aosta Valley. So where that little yellow, uh, icon is, underneath where it says Val de Aosta, is Courmayeur.00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But the Cormier… if I understand it correctly, then, all of the Aosta Valley resorts are included on the Icon Pass. So, as you say, Cormier… Cormier…00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:07.000Stuart Winchester: Correct.00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's quite a shishi kind of resort. You'll find lots of Milanese and Turinese will go up there for the weekend. There are lots of very smart shops in the little high street there. There's some very, very good restaurants up there.00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The ski area is not as big, probably, you know, 50km, two, three days for a, you know, a good advanced skier would be sufficient to ski a lot of it. But you can get access up to the Vallee Blanche from the Italian side as well.00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:30.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:35.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And that lift was upgraded a few years ago. And it's very, very impressive. It's much more modern than the Aguirre de Midi. And it has, you know, museums at the mid station and at the top station, which explore the history of mountaineering in the area.00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:52.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So, I would actually say that if someone's, you know, looking to stay.00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: For a week.00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:19.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: and they have an Icon Pass, that the Ossa Valley could be a really good choice. If you had a car as well, because you can then explore Courmayeur, and then you mentioned Chavinha.00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So, uh, slightly further down the valley, uh, and then up the hill, you mentioned that Shavinia links with Zermatt, and Shavinia is a really good resort. It's high, uh, it has.00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Quite wide pistes, quite flattering type of skiing. It has Italian cuisine, as all of the Aosta Valley does. Much.00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:55.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: more affordable than Zermatt, but you could ski over to Zermatt for the day and ski the Zermatt area, uh, as well.00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:50.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:22:55.000 --> 00:23:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So, Chavinha, you know, is great. There's also a smaller resort called La Tuile, uh, in the Aosta Valley as well, which…00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:00.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it is worth a day or two. That actually links over to a French resort called La Rozier. I doubt.00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: that would be included, and I don't see it on your list. Uh, and what I do see included a bit further down, we're moving around the map quite a lot, there is an area called Monterosa.00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: which is on the Aosta Valley as well. Uh, and there's two areas there called Gressenet.00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:25.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: uh, and Alanya, and the skiing in both of those, I believe, is included, uh, within that. And, uh, you know, in Gressenet, uh, and Alanya, there's some quite advanced skiing there, up in Monterosa.00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: um, some really good, you know, off-piste, uh, challenging skiing, and in fact, you can do heli-skiing out of those areas. Heli-skiing is banned in France, but it's legal in Italy, so you can ski, and it'.00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:48.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow.00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:51.000Stuart Winchester: Oh.00:23:53.000 --> 00:24:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: legal in Switzerland as well, but you can ski out of Alanya, and heliski up to the mountain called Monterosa, and, uh, you know, access some amazing off-piste from there.00:23:57.000 --> 00:23:58.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:22.000Stuart Winchester: That's incredible. I, you know, for a while, Google Maps took that. I'm looking at the map here and I changed the settings so that the lifts show up. And for a while, Google Maps had taken them off and now they've added them back on. And so you can just really get to see the scale of what's going on in Europe. And I know what Americans are going to want to do.00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:29.000Stuart Winchester: when they look at Chamonix. They're going to want to take the Algomenidae up, and they're going to try to ski down into Italy. Is.00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:50.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, I mean, it is possible. Quite literally, if you did that to the Aguirre de Midi, you could ski, you'd have to ski tour up slightly, and then you could ski down. I wouldn't suggest doing that without a guide. You know, it is feasible to do it, and when last time I went up the, uh, the lift from the Courmayeur side, I saw tracks below.00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:32.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: but it's not a straightforward route. Cormier's 1,200 meters, you know, you can get snow all the way to the bottom, but yeah, it's possible, but definitely, you know, take a guide, I would suggest.00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:11.000Stuart Winchester: Right. All right, so let's continue with the hero trip here. Where next, Ian?00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:25.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, well, again, if you're thinking about, you know, some of the great resorts in Europe, I'm actually going to pick St. Anton in Austria next, because that is listed on the spreadsheet I'm looking at as Skjalberg.00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:16.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:25.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: On the epic, on the epic pass.00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:34.000Stuart Winchester: Right. Yeah. Everything has 10 names there. That's another, that's another reason I, we needed you on here. Um.00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah. Well…00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, Ski… Ski Aalberg is… so, let's just have a look at where you are. It's gonna be slightly to the, uh, west.00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.000Stuart Winchester: There it is. There it is. I found it.00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, there you go, Ski Aalberg. So, Ski Aalberg… Aalberg is, like, a region of Austria that sits within Tyrol, one of the, uh, the cantons, and in fact, that is quite good, the level that you've got it at right there. You can see, just on the video that I'm looking at, uh, at the moment.00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:44.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, there we go.00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: That you've got St. Anton is sitting almost underneath where it says Ski Aalberg. It's pretty easy to get to.00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:11.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:25.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you can get there… you can fly into either Innsbruck, or you can fly into Zurich. For, you know, I typically travel by train, but, you know, from both of those, it's about an hour and a half or so by train.00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:20.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, roughly, uh, transfer time. A really good train station in St. Anton. And St. Anton…00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:40.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: is an amazing destination. I was lucky enough to learn to ski there, you know, when I was a kid.00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:50.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I think what… it ticks a lot of boxes. It does have, uh, maybe contrary to some people's impressions, amazing food.00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:26:50.000 --> 00:27:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There's, like, a Michelin-star restaurant at the mid-station, just above a resort, which is, you know, well worth checking out. But lots of resorts, lots of restaurants in the town as well.00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:59.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Has legendary apres ski.00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:12.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There are two bars located opposite each other, which some listeners may have heard of, called the Crazy Kangaroo.00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And the moose avert.00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And these are, like, legendary at the end of the day. Skiers will go there, they'll be dancing on the tables, they'll be, uh, you know, knocking back whatever they can, and then skiing down very, very carefully.00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:44.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, to the resort, the remaining, kind of, 500 meters or so. They do actually encourage people to get a bus back, uh, now, uh, if you can, because there is a little bit of a history of… of accidents, but those two, you know, have amazing apres ski.00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:44.000 --> 00:28:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Really good restaurants, but the ski area is fantastic. Ski Aalberg covers all of the resorts in that area. On the level of maps on at the moment, you can see over to the left, there's an area called St. Christoph. You can link over to St. Christoph.00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:08.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you can link over to Steuben, quite easy to ski over there, and then just to the north of the map, as we're looking at it at the moment, will be Lech.00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:17.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: which is also part of Ski Aalberg. You know, you can stay in Lech. I tend to favor St. Anton, there's a lot more going on. Lech is a bit…00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:17.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: how can I put it? Posher, quite frankly. You know, frequented by the Dutch royal family and, uh, and others. You know, the British royal family historically used to go there as well. You can actually ski on Ski Arburg all the way up to that town called.00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, okay.00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:31.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Vaath, or Vaath, which is right at the top of the map. That is a very long day, and the connections to there are quite difficult. But it is a…00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:35.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, gosh.00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.000Stuart Winchester: You can ski from there to…00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, you could ski between there and St. Anton and back in a single day. You can get a certificate if you follow the whole route and do it. But it is a very large ski area. But St. Anton itself, really brilliant place to base yourself.00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.000Stuart Winchester: You're saying, wow.00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.000Stuart Winchester: Jeez.00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.000Stuart Winchester: Unbelievable.00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you know, lift connections are really good, the resort is really good, and, you know, that would be one of the reasons I would suggest that.00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And just another kind of equivalent destination for the hero trip. Oh, sorry. Go on. Go on. Yes.00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:18.000Stuart Winchester: Let me just pause and ask you one question about Ahlberg. So, you know, again, Americans are…00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:34.000Stuart Winchester: And that's, I don't want to mean to speak for the whole nation, but they tend to fall into the checklist trap where they're just trying to get to everything. Would you recommend trying to ski from here to there, or would you recommend settling in, kind of enjoying a day at each, or maybe just.00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Hmm.00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.000Stuart Winchester: Seeing where the day takes you, not worrying about all the lifts.00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I mean, I would only do that for a long way to go. I mean, it's quite a long way to go to Lech and back for the day. And there is a lot of really good skiing in St. Anton. I actually tend to favor the St. Christoph Steuben.00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:29:53.000 --> 00:30:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: area, because it doesn't get skied as much as some of the other areas, and there's a lot to ski there, so you can have peace to yourself, whereas it might be much busier closer to St. Anton. There's actually another area you can see with the lifts that you've got there going slightly south.00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:58.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:10.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:24.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: from St. Anton, that goes to an area called Rendle, which is part of the Ski Arburg area. And, you know, Rendle is another really good ski area that's often underskied. I mean, you could spend a day skiing over there on its own.00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:30.000Stuart Winchester: Is… is that… is that part of Ski Aalberg? On the Epic Pass? It is? Okay. Okay.00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's part of Schiberg as well, yeah.00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:37.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, great. All right. Anwar, you were gonna tell us about another, I think, Austrian destination.00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, I was gonna go the other… the other very obvious, I would say.00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Um…00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Big destination is Verbier.00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Which I believe is also on the Epic Pass.00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, so Verbier's in Switzerland, quite close to Chamonix. You can drive between Chamonix and Verbier in an hour and a quarter. Again, you'd fly into Geneva.00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.000Stuart Winchester: Ah, yeah, let's…00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.000Stuart Winchester: Okay. Oh, there it is.00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: really easy to get to from Geneva. You can actually get the train all the way from Geneva Airport direct to the town at the bottom of Verbier, which is called Le Chapelle, and then they have a gondola, which, uh… which you guys call a tram, I think, or, uh…00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow.00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000Stuart Winchester: There.00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:25.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it's a bubble lift, however you want to term it, that goes directly from the valley floor, connects directly out of the railway station and up into Verbier.00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And, you know, Verbier…00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Brilliant resort. Such an amazing ski area. It's actually listed on there as a Catra Valley, the Four Valleys, and that's because it also includes several other resorts as well, which are called, I think, Lazu… you can just about see them. Lazuma, Nonda.00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:37.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:48.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: and Vaesuna, which are just slightly to the north there.00:31:48.000 --> 00:32:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, so they're all included in that area. It's a big ski area, but Verbier has a lot going on. Uh, again, you know, good apres ski, really good, uh, restaurants, uh, but.00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Particularly for the more advanced skiers, there's some incredible off-piste there. You know, you can…00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:12.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: um… go off… off the back from the top of Mon4.00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: with a guide, just again, and there's a huge area that can open up there. You can also do heli skiing out of Verbier to access some of the other peaks around there, but you can stay in the inbounds area and still ski a lot of really good off-piste.00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's high as well, you know, the resort itself is 1600 meters, and I think it goes up to.00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: 3… 2… I'm not 100% sure about that, but certainly high. So, you know, you have regular snow. I mean, I skied there in the last week of…00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: April last year.00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:47.000 --> 00:33:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: and there was still plenty of snow. Um, it's, you know, it's expensive. It's not quite as expensive as, uh, Zermatt. It doesn't have the view of the Matterhorn, but it is one of the world's best ski resorts, for sure.00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:14.000Stuart Winchester: So that's on Epic Pass, and it's, you know, Vail has purchased a couple of ski areas at Kranz, Montana, and Andermatt-Suderun, and it's also… the Epic Pass is unlimited on DeSantis, which is right.00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:23.000Stuart Winchester: contiguous with the Entermeister Druun. If you have the Epic Pass, is it worth trying to do a trip with all of those, or is Verbier enough?00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:32.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And Verbier's definitely enough for a whole week. If you had a car, Cro-Montana isn't very far away, it would probably only take you…00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you know, an hour and a bit… I'm gonna say an hour and a quarter, perhaps, to, uh, get there. Cremontana's a big area in itself. It's, um… you know, I've skied there on many occasions, and I really like it. It's not… I've been there…00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: On a family holiday.00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:48.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Whereas…00:33:48.000 --> 00:34:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I would go to Verbier because I like to ski kind of, uh, steep and off-piste, uh, you know, with a guide. And probably it's too expensive to take a family to. Cromontana is, uh, you know, a bit more, uh, affordable. I mean, it's still a very smart, uh, resort.00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But if you wanted to explore, you could go there. Amount is a bit more of a stretch in terms of distance.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:18.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: You know, if you were on a tour, and you're an Epic Pass holder, you could take it in.00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Now, I'm also a fan of Andermatt. I've been there several times, uh, as well. Again, probably go to Zurich for Andermatt. You can get the train from Zurich in about an hour and a half, something like that. And it's a really interesting story, uh, Andermatt. You know, it used to be…00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Its location is strategically significant in the middle of several valleys. So at once upon a time, it used to be an army base.00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:55.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And then, when the army, uh, withdrew, it kind of went into decline for a long time. And it was bought by, uh, the area was brought by a property developer.00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:50.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:08.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And ultimately, he built it up, and more recently, Vale Resorts have taken that over. And so there's a lot of new accommodations, some incredibly nice restaurants. Again, more Michelin stars there. I've got a feeling…00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It might have the highest number of Michelin stars per capita for any.00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: town in the world.00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, and the skiing itself, you know, again, I've been there with a guide, there's some excellent off-piste skiing, but there's, you know, a good amount of on-piste skiing as well.00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's a really, it's really appealing area.00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:35.000Stuart Winchester: So you mentioned having a guide many times, and I think that's, you know, in…00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Heh.00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:45.000Stuart Winchester: in North America, we generally only hire guides when we're going outside of the resort, and a lot of folks don't even do it then, if they're confident in their own avalanche.00:35:45.000 --> 00:36:00.000Stuart Winchester: capabilities. In general, everything within resort boundaries in North America is considered to be patrolled and controlled, meaning they'll do avalanche work, and if it's open, you can go in it without a guide. There's a few exceptions where you need transceivers, etc.00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:13.000Stuart Winchester: That's not really the case in Europe, so just from a mentality standpoint, how should skiers approach this when they're going to some of these hero resorts you're talking about, as far as.00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:18.000Stuart Winchester: Considering a guide in essential versus a luxury.00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:36.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Okay, I wouldn't want to mislead you there. I mean, guides are just on my mind, because I like a lot of backcountry skiing, and therefore, I often, you know, go with them. In bounds, you don't need a guide, absolutely not. You know, you can download the app, or get yourself a peace map, and you can.00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:27.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: go around the place as much as you want, and, uh, you know, it is fully secured, you've got ski patrol, uh, etc, so you don't need to be concerned about that. It just happens that a lot of the places that I've mentioned so far, you know, do have some of those more interesting off-piste options, and I guess it depends a bit on the listener and, you know, what they're, uh, looking for, but you… you don't…00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: need to have a guide to show you around resorts. I mean, potentially, some of these ski areas are.00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: significantly larger than they might come across in North America, and therefore.00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:12.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it could be a good investment to rent someone or to hire someone to show you around. I mean, back in the day, in the 90s, when I was working in the Alps, I worked for British tour operators, and part of my job was showing guests around the mountains and helping them orientate themselves.00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:38.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And that actually is pertinent, because the next resort I wanted, or area I wanted to mention, was Le Trois Vallees, Le Three Valleys.00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Which…00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:41.000Stuart Winchester: Also on Epic Pass.00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: also is on Epic Pass. Now, the three valleys…00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: probably has a pretty good awareness amongst the North American market. I mean, it is the world's largest ski area.00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:54.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:53.000 --> 00:38:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There's 600 kilometers apiece there, and I work four seasons in the three valleys, three in Meribel and one in Courchevel.00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.000Stuart Winchester: Peace.00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.000Stuart Winchester: Wow.00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And it is.00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: magnificent in terms of scale. There is so much skiing you can do there, and, you know, I worked four winters there. Did I ski every single run, you know, during that time? I doubt it.00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:24.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, because you tend to go back and forth across a lot of them. Uh, you know, there is so much that it's gonna take you well more than a week if you wanted to, uh.00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: ski them all, but you could certainly explore the three valleys.00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:39.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: You know, I… it's hard to know exactly which of those destinations to recommend, because it depends on the individuals to…00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: put it in context, you have three valleys, literally, over, if we were looking on the map, the left-hand side, you would have Courchevel.00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The middle, Maribel.00:38:49.000 --> 00:39:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, and the right-hand side, Val Torrens. I think as we look at the map at the moment, it's the opposite way round. So we can see on the left, you've got Val Torrens at the top. That's the highest ski resort in Europe. It's 2,300 meters itself, the resort. Not high by, like, Colorado standards or something like that, but high by European standards.00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:19.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's above the tree line, uh, you know, it's changed a lot in recent years, but there's a lot of apartment accommodation there, there's a lot of nice four- and five-star hotels up there, uh, as well, but it doesn't have.00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Like, if you were coming to Europe for the first time, it doesn't have the kind of character, the charisma.00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:28.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: that some other resorts, let's say, like Verbier, or Zermatt, or St. Anton have, because it's modern, you know, it was built in the 1970s, so it's a purpose-built, uh, resort. Also, in that valley slightly lower down, you have Leymanduia, more.00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Prettier, you know, at the bottom, you've got a place called San Martin.00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The middle valley, Meribel.00:39:49.000 --> 00:40:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: that is lots of pretty chocolate box chalets. Uh, you know, I worked 3 years there. It's brilliantly connected. Uh, the resort itself is between 1,400 and 1,800 meters, so it's pretty high.00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:53.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And, you know, it's a good…00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:19.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: base, I'd still, if you were thinking about that, I'd still, you know, without wishing to offend any of my friends in Mirabal, and I have very many of them, I'd probably say if you think about a week and you wanted to base yourself somewhere.00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Maybe Verbier or Saint Anton.00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: would be a better choice for that. They both have, you know, still big ski areas, and just a little bit more accessibility, uh, you know, overall.00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:39.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Courchevel, again, a resort I love that I worked in for a season.00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There's several different…00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: um, what the French call station, different levels within Courchevel.00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:40:46.000 --> 00:41:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Courchevel 1850, most people will have heard of. It's a top station. It's at 1850 meters. It is very shishy. Five and six star hotels, 13 Michelin stars.00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you know, across the resort, it… you can't find… well, I have stayed there in a couple of budget accommodations, but there's not really budget accommodation. You know, if you want to go and…00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: to a resort where you may well end up, you know, sharing a hotel with, I don't know, Leo DiCaprio, or, you know, you might find a member of the British Royals there, or David Beckham, then that's the kind of place to go.00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:32.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:36.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But you're going to have to pay to go along with that. And it has fantastic skiing.00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:35.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But again.00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: if you're only coming for a shorter period of time, I'd be inclined to mention a couple of the other resorts I mentioned, plus…00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:54.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I want to mention Valdezare as well, but I don't think Valdezare is on any of the collective passes, is it?00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Uh, is it part of one of these bigger…00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.000Stuart Winchester: Domains or.00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: No, it is not. I mean, there is a, uh… so it's not going to come up on your map.00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But Valdisera is a brilliant…00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:24.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: uh, resort, which does give you traditional skiing, a pretty village, a huge, uh, ski area that links up to Teen, where they have a glacier, so you can kind of guarantee that you're going to be able to get skiing. Skiing goes up to 3,500 meters there.00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:25.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I met Americans there, so Americans certainly know about it. I met a family from, you know, Florida who were in the Folly Deuce, who were enjoying themselves in the VIP area and very kindly, you know, offered us some of their champagne.00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: uh, at the time. You know, Founders Area is a brilliant resort, not covered on any of those passes. That doesn't mean that it's not necessarily going to be, you know, a good option, uh, for you. You know, lift tickets.00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:43.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:42:53.000 --> 00:43:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: are going to be, you know, dirt cheap compared to the States, but maybe still, like, 80 euros a day, or something like that, you know, overall, but a really good ski area. So those are all… I think we've covered all of the, kind of, the bigger.00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:18.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: kind of places there, unless you've got any other questions in relation to any of them. Oh, no, hold on! We've missed one! We've missed one! Dolomitiski!00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.000Stuart Winchester: No. Yeah.00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:16.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:19.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: That's on Icon, isn't it?00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:35.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, well, Dolomiti Super Ski is on Icon, Skirama Dolomiti is on Epic. They each have, like, 100 ski areas, it seems like, so… yeah, this is how they're pitched to us. I don't know how you want to make sense to them on the ground… of them on the ground.00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah.00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah.00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:51.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, okay, let's talk Dolomiti superskis. That's where the Winter Olympics were last year. Milan Cortina. Cortina is in the Dolomites. And it is a huge superski area, you know, depending how you do the definitions, it's larger.00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:39.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:40.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:45.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: than L'Etoile Vallee.00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:54.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, but…00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Sometimes that means getting a bus in between. Uh, it is…00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It is great. You could fly into Innsbruck, you could fly into Venice, you can combine that with a trip to Venice, or maybe Verona, or Milan. They're all about equidistance from the Dolomiti Sufski.00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's visually accurate.00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Absolutely stunning. The Dolomites are just an amazing mountain range. I found myself when I was skiing in Val Gardena, which we'll come to right in the middle of your map at the moment, just being distracted.00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:23.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I'm looking at the mountains, because they're just so gorgeous. I'm skiing down this piste. You know, looking at this mountain, thinking, oh my god, this is just amazing. And then on top of that, you know, you have.00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:36.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.000Stuart Winchester: Yah.00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Italian cuisine, Italian prices, you know, yeah, Cortina's the most expensive. Again, quite a lot of, uh, you know, Milanese would go up there for the weekend, but, you know, overall, Selva, again, roughly around the middle of your, uh, map at the moment. Yeah, really…00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Really good value, you know, considering it's a really good access point for a fantastic ski area.00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And it has…00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The Superski is not a misnomer. It is a very large ski area.00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:27.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And there's some amazing circuits that you can do there. So I would probably recommend, if you were thinking about it, Cortina or Silva Val Gardena would be the two best places to locate yourself.00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:37.000Stuart Winchester: And do you like Superski over Vail's Skirama Dolomiti group? And again, I've dug in a little bit, but I didn't include on this map what that…00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:42.000Stuart Winchester: contains, and I dropped the pin here on, uh, Campo Carlomagno, but…00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:46.000Stuart Winchester: It includes a lot of things in, you know, almost equal.00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, I'm gonna have to put my hand up and say I don't know that area as well. I haven't actually skied there myself. It is, to my mind, and I can check your stats because I've got it in front of me, you're saying it's roughly the same skiable area.00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Right. Was that the vertical drop?00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.000Stuart Winchester: That's the stats that…00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.000Stuart Winchester: or on the Epic Pass website.00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah.00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.000Stuart Winchester

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