330: Kirsty Muir, Chemmy Alcott on LifePass and How to become a Snowboard Judge

We hear from Kirsty Muir in an exclusive interview, Chemmy Alcott introduces us to LifePass and we find out how to become a snowboard judge.

We also have updates from the Northern and London Snow Shows and some big news about our podcasts in November.

Host Iain Martin was joined in the studio by Chemmy Alcott, Pete McFetridge, founder and CEO of LifePass and FIS-qualified snowboard judge Sophie Smith.
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Les 2 Alpes sponsors The Ski Podcast, which means this winter we will be finding out more about the resort’s long seven-month ski season, the great activities on offer there in summer, and some of the people who live and work there and make Les 2 Alpes such a fantastic destination.
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SHOW NOTES

The Northern Snow Show took place at The Snow Centre, Manchester (4:30)
Virginia Anderson from DSUK told us about their new hub in Episode 323 (5:00)
Morv Bett from SnowCamp was a guest in Episode 324 (6:30)
Matt Garka hosts the Skiing is Believing Podcast (8:00) (0:24 to 0:54, so 30 secs)
Scott Hanlon is Activities Manager at Glencoe in Scotland (8:45)
British freestyle skier Kirsty Muir (10:00)
Matt Robinson, organiser of the Northern Show featured in Episode 324 (17:45)
James Gambrill is organiser of The London Snow Show on 16 and 17 October (19:45)
Chemmy on the London Show (23:45)
Katja Gaskell will be guest hosting The Ski Podcast in November (26:30)
Chemmy on the future of Ski Sunday (29:00)
What is LifePass? (30:30)
The inspiration behind LifePass (31:45)
La Thuile has been the testing ground (32:45)
How does LifePass work in practice? (33:45)
Using live location (37:15)
The La Thuile ski patrol have responded to the SOS button (39:00)
Cervinia will offer LifePass this winter (39:30)
Sophie works at GB Snowsport as a Content and Communications Officer (43:00)
She won an award for her final year project – a documentary called ‘The Slope to Recovery’ (45:00)
Sophie is a FIS qualified snowboard judge (47:30)
Listen to Iain’s interview with Ed Leigh about how judges score (49:15)

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