Espace Killy

The Espace Killy

Location	Val d'Isère & Tignes France
Coordinates	45°37′10″N 6°45′15″E / 45.61944°N 6.75417°E / 45.61944; 6.75417 (The Espace Killy)
Top elevation	3550 m^[1]
Base elevation	1550 m^[2]
Skiable area	300 km of runs
Runs	156 total^[3] 23 (15%) beginner 66 (42%) easy 40 (26%) intermediate 27 (17%) difficult
Longest run	10 km (La Sache)
Lift system	90 (2 funicular, 4 cable cars, 4 gondolas, 44 chair lifts, 36 surface lifts)
Terrain parks	2 ^[4]
Snowmaking	216 Cannons
Website	http://www.espacekilly.com/

The Espace Killy is a ski area in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie in the French Alps, named after the skier Jean-Claude Killy. It covers the resorts of Val d'Isère and Tignes.

In Espace Killy there are 300 km of pistes:

22 green runs, 61 blues, 46 reds and 25 blacks,^[5] plus 44 km of cross country skiing
2 terrain parks
2 glaciers
90 ski lifts

Tarentaise Valley Skiing

Within the Tarentaise Valley you find the biggest concentration of world-class ski resorts in the world. Most well known neighbour systems are Paradiski (Les Arcs, La Plagne) and Les Trois Vallées (Val Thorens, Meribel, Courchevel and more). A weekly lift ticket in Espace Killy gives you a choice to ski one day in each of the other two systems mentioned. There were once plans to interlink all systems and resorts to create the largest ski area in the world by far. However that vision was ended with the creation of the Vanoise National Park.

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Coordinates: 45°37′10″N 6°46′15″E / 45.619386°N 6.770892°E / 45.619386; 6.770892

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