France has many interesting ski resorts due to the Alps, but the most interesting is their lowest lying ski resort in the ski center of Nœux-les-Mines, 600 kilometers from the first hills, which lies at an altitude of 129 meters above sea level and winds its way down a hill of waste ore (located in a former mining area ). It is the first ski resort of its kind in Europe, but it has another special feature. It does not need snow, as it is skied on a plastic carpet.
Snow is becoming more and more a rare commodity even in the higher lying parts of Europe. Even the Alps are not immune to climate change, and everything points to the fact that in the future we will no longer be skiing on real snow, but on its substitutes.
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He is one of those plastic carpet, which was laid in a former mining area in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the northernmost French region on the border with Belgium, where you can in the ski center of Nœux-les-Mines we meander through the white fields all year round, as its operation does not depend on snowfall.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais - storture without snow:
