Jon - I caught the skiing bug in 1991 and have only missed 2 seasons since! I skied in Andorra, Bulgaria, Italy and Austria before buying an apartment in St Jean d'Aulps with a friend. That gave us the excuse to ski 5 or 6 times a season and from there, I decided I just couldn't leave the place. So, after 13 years of slaving in the rat race, Liz & I sold up in the UK, headed for the mountains and set up actionmountain.com...

A skier and proud of it, I just can't be bothered to learn to board - sorry! There's nothing better for me than heading off on a sunny, powdery day doing a circuit of the Portes du Soleil or taking a group of guests into the quieter domains of Switzerland for a blast down some fast reds and blues.....roll on December!!

Liz - I started skiing 8 years ago and fell in love with it straight away.  I previously worked in London with a long daily commute from Reading and I therefore jumped at the chance to escape to the mountains full time.  We've been running actionmountain.com for 6 years and in 2006 we bought Chalet le Pont, where we now live year-round!

The Portes du Soleil is a fantastic area to ski and we never get bored as there's so much variety for all levels...my favourite is probably the Plaine Dranse valley (towards Chatel) where the high number of red runs mean that you soon escape the masses - for skiers it's brilliant for practising your carving technique and snow boarders will love the steepish but wide pistes and great off-piste terrain!