This run is hard enough to get to, let alone ski. The piste is reachable by cable car, that’s fine, but the entrance to the Grand Couloir is at the end of 200m long ridge, little more than a few metres wide and often iced up.

Once you’ve braved that you’re faced with a steep, testing mogul field down to the bottom. To say that it’s treacherous when icy is an understatement. 

The Grand Couloir is the only one marked on your piste map but is actually next to two even more difficult couloirs – the Sous Pylons and the Emile Allais. Come back for those after conquering the Grand Couloir.