Courchevel altiport polo.

posted: 2008-01-19
Anyone trying to land the private jet on Friday / Saturday would have a nasty shock as they came in for final approach. Not as big a shock as anyone coming into Heathrow south runway but they don't have teams of equines scampering on the runway.
Taking a leaf out of St Moritz and Aspen's book Courchevel has modified the top of the runway into a snow polo field calling it the highest polo tournament in the world. The titles of the team might have read Moscow v Courchevel but as Courchevel isn't the winter home to a large crowd of polo playing professionals they have come from Argentina and as Moscow has the same problem all their team were Dutch. Surely this begs the question why they didn't just have a Holland v Argentina match instead.