Dubai's new indoor Alpine ski resort...Money Can buy you most anything

[SoCalDem]

Skiers test the snow at Ski Dubai,
inside the brand-new, gigantic Mall of the Emirates,
November 25, 2005, in Dubai. Skiing has
officially started at Dubai's new indoor
Alpine ski resort, offering the
world's first indoor black-run just minutes
away from the Arabian desert
emirate's sun-baked beaches.(AFP/File/Nasser Younes)

[shoelace414]

1. I thought deserts had water issues..

I guess I was wrong. :P

[izzie]

3. Yes money to burn or freeze, What ever.

Really silly

[SoCalDem]

2. Associated article

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=20477


Ski season officially starts in Dubai

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Saturday, December 03, 2005


DUBAI: Skiing officially started on Friday at Dubai's new indoor Alpine ski resort, offering the world's first indoor black-run just minutes away from the desert emirate's beaches. The lower level slopes started welcoming skiers, while the upper ones were due to be open on December 14, Ski Dubai chief executive Phil Taylor said.

Snowboarders can also test their skills on a 90-meter-long quarter pipe, as well as jumps and rails at the ski dome nestled inside the brand-new, gigantic Mall of the Emirates.

"I am now rushing to take a skiing lesson before heading back to a business meeting," said one Emirati national, who will have to swap his Arab traditional robe for warm ski gear before hitting the slopes.

Snowboarder Johnny Yammine, who usually spends his free time on motocross and mountain climbing expeditions in the Emirati desert, is "ecstatic about the good quality of snow and the varied terrain which is far better than indoor skiing I have tried in Europe."

The $272-million resort is but the latest extravagant project in the Gulf emirate seeking to become a tourism hub, following on from the world's tallest tower and only undersea hotel.

Ski Dubai, a man-made mountain scene as big as three football fields that can hold up to 1,500 visitors, will have five slopes of different degrees of difficulty, the longest being 400 meters with a fall of 62 meters.

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[papau]

4. longest being 400 meters with a fall of 62 meters. :-(

:-(

[Aviation Pro]

5. That's not a ski resort....

....this is a ski resort (St. Anton):

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8. HOLY moguls, Batman!

[Flubadubya]

6. And we're the "Decadent West"?

Oh, brother. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

7. Dubai is pretty westernized, fromwhat I have heard

and they are apparently awash with money..