CHAMONIX SKI: National High Level Ski Center, Government supports Chamonix

Today, the French Ski Federation (FFS) will decide which one of three cities - Albertville, Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Chamonix - will welcome the National High Level Ski Center. Each candidature will be defended by their respective mayor. According to the Minister of Budget, Public Accounts and Civil Service, Éric Woerth - a regular in the Chamonix Mont-Blanc Valley - the preference of the government goes to Chamonix. "We must not disperse our forces", he says. The State has a public institution that works really well in Chamonix, the ENSA (National School of Ski and Mountaineering, structure forming mountain guides and ski instructors and based in Chamonix). "We must continue to emphasize the most operational and faster option. Another choice would be riskier, longer and more expensive. We can not afford this, given the crucial nature of the Olympics of 2018". This support should not displease the world capital of skiing and mountaineering!