Skiing Is a Sport for the Rich

The cost in total for creating artificial snow is in the order of 130 140 000 euros or make that dollars per hectare. Vale has set about systematically hoovering up exclusive rights actually buying mountains across the ski resorts of the United States and they now control 50% of the American skiing market. It's absolutely astonishing that this no leisure pursuit should have become the target for this remarkable monopolistic effort it's one I was completely unaware of as a non-skeer.