After an unglamorous start to her ski career, involving 28-hour bus journeys between Newcastle upon Tyne to the Alps, Frances had her Eureka moment sitting on a chairlift one year in La Plagne. She realised that “people actually work here”.
Instead of getting a proper job after university, she applied to be a ski rep. As a seasonaire in Montgenèvre and then Saint Martin de Belleville she met hundreds of interesting characters and got to ski almost every day. Some of her favourite things about skiing are: sitting at the top of a silent mountain, dancing in ski boots and chugging past snow-covered trees on a chairlift.
Frances – a former winner of the Guardian Young Travel Journalist of the Year award – has worked for five years on national newspapers as a writer, sub-editor and web editor. As a ski journalist, she has written articles for The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Skier and Snowboarder and girlpowder.co.uk. She has contributed to the book, Working in Ski Resorts.