Élite experience · On request
3 ValléesHeli Experience
Seventeen minutes in the air, and you're inside the largest ski area in the world.
From Sestriere to Courchevel by helicopter. A full day on the 3 Vallées — ski or snowboard, with a National Instructor — lunch in a high-mountain hut, back at sunset. No queues, no tunnels: just the mountains, from above.
The idea
By car, from Sestriere to Courchevel, it takes half a day: the Fréjus tunnel, the toll, the hairpins, the hours in traffic. You arrive when it's already afternoon, and leave when it's almost dark.
By helicopter everything changes. Seventeen minutes over the ridges, the glacier beneath you, and you're on the slopes of the 3 Vallées with the whole day still ahead.
It's not just a faster transfer. It's a way of seeing the Alps that almost no one ever has: from above, in silence, with the snow sliding past below. Here, the journey is already half the experience.
Then you ski. And in the evening you go home — to Sestriere — feeling like you've stolen a day from another world.
Watch it
A flight, in a minute
Words only tell half of it. Press play and see what it is really like: the take-off, the ridges, the landing on the other side of the Alps. The video opens on Instagram.
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Come funziona
The day, from take-off to return
A simple sequence, looked after at every step. All that's left for you is to ski.
Take-off from the Via Lattea
We meet in Sestriere. Skis and board loaded, you board the Pureski Company helicopter and lift off: below, the glacier and the border ridges.
Over the Alps, towards France
The best stretch. In just 17 minutes you cross the ridge and come down over Courchevel — the part of the trip that alone is worth the ticket.
Skiing the whole area
Courchevel and all of the 3 Vallées, with the guide choosing the slopes and the pace to suit the group. Ski or snowboard, from the steep walls to the long scenic reds.
A table up high
A stop at an exclusive mountain hut on the slopes, to eat well, up high, without going down to the valley.
More lines, until the light fades
You keep riding the area for as long as the day allows, closing the last run when everyone else is already queuing to head back.
Back to Sestriere
Around 16:30 (approximate) you climb back on board and fly home — another 17 minutes — with the warm afternoon light on the mountains. Home, without losing a minute on the road.
The playground
Le 3 Vallées
Courchevel, Méribel, Val Thorens: three valleys, eight resorts, one single area linked by the lifts. It's the largest ski area in the world — and in a single day, with someone who knows it, you taste the best of it.
Wide, mirror-smooth groomed slopes, high-altitude scenic stretches, terrain for every pair of legs. The guide reads the snow and the group, and builds the day run by run.
Lunch up the mountain
An élite hut on the slopes
At midday you don't go down to the valley: you stop at one of the area's exclusive huts, right on the snow, up high at over 2,000 metres.
Mountain cooking done well, a set table, glasses in the sun and the open view over the peaks. It's the moment the day turns from a ski outing into an experience.
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Up high, on the slopes — no going back down, no time lost.
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Lunch is an extra on request: we put it together, to the group's taste.
The destination
Courchevel, the other mountain
Chalets of wood and stone under the snow, fir forests, one of the most elegant resorts in the Alps. You get there in twenty minutes of flight, as if it were round the corner.
It's not the usual day on the skis: it's another mountain, another country, another atmosphere — and in the evening you're back in Sestriere, telling the story.
Who goes with you
Two instructors, one per discipline
The experience is in the hands of National Instructors, the highest teaching qualification recognised by FISI. The guide is dedicated to the group for the whole day and is assigned according to the discipline.
Eugenio Marsaglia
Gigi Lozzi
Mixed ski and snowboard groups are welcome: each person follows their own instructor.
Ski or snowboard
However you like to ride
The experience is the same, the discipline is your choice — even in a mixed group. The 3 Vallées terrain works for both, and there is the right instructor for each.
On skis
Kilometres of perfect slopes, from long scenic runs to the most technical walls. For skiing, the 3 Vallées is one of the most complete playgrounds there is.
On snowboard
Same day, same altitude, same flight. The board finds smooth lines and wide-open spaces — and the guide builds the ride with the pace of snowboarders in mind too.
The cost
An élite experience, closer than it seems
Let's be honest: it's a high-end experience, and it comes at a serious price. But there's one detail that changes everything — the helicopter has four seats.
If you fill it — four friends, a family, a small group — the flight is shared, and the cost per person drops a lot. Compared with a whole day lost to the tunnel, tolls and hours in the car, the helicopter stops being an out-of-reach luxury and becomes a choice that even makes sense.
No fixed price list: every day is bespoke. We quote it together.
From those who've been
A day, from dawn to sunset
Before you go
Questions & answers
17 minutes of flight from Sestriere — 17 out and 17 back, with the return planned around 16:30 (approximate). By car, instead, it takes half a day with the Fréjus tunnel, tolls and hairpins: that's exactly the difference that makes the helicopter an experience of its own.
The helicopter transfer is operated by Pureski Company, based in Sestriere.
Yes, both — and in a mixed group too. On skis Eugenio Marsaglia guides you, on snowboard Gigi Lozzi, both National Instructors. The 3 Vallées offer perfect terrain for both skis and board.
The helicopter carries up to four people. It's the ideal format: a small group, a family, four friends. The more of you there are, the more the flight cost is shared.
You need to be able to get down the slopes on your own. From there, the guide builds the day around your level: there's calm, scenic terrain as well as more demanding stretches. If in doubt, message us and we'll talk it through.
Lunch at the hut is an extra on request, which we organise together to the group's taste. You tell us when we plan the day.
The experience is on request: there's no fixed price list because every day is bespoke (number of people, flight, lunch, extras). Message us on WhatsApp and we'll put together a quote and availability for you.
Ready to take off?
Tell us who you are and when you'd like to fly. We'll come back with the day tailored to you — flight, skiing, lunch — and a clear quote.
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