Our Resort Team

James has been instructing in Val d'Isere for almost 10 years and now lives in the Tarentaise Valley below Val d’Isere in the village of Séez with his family. 

He has taught skiing at a recreational level for the entirety of his professional ski teaching career but in addition to this, he has also been a coach for several training centres that develop the skills of instructors towards all levels of the BASI pathway. He has worked closely with other nationalities and their training systems through his time in New Zealand, in a multinational ski school environment and frequently running ski school training for the staff. 

He is now one of the directors of ICE where he brings all of this past experience together and is able to pass this onto any of the instructors or skiers that come to train with ICE.

It seems a long way from Cornwall, but for the last 26 seasons Val d'Isère has been home for Rupert Tildesley. Qualified to the highest level in both the British and French systems, Rupert is one of the most experienced top level ski coaches in the world. He is a BASI Trainer and former member of the British Demonstration ski Team and has represented Great Britain at the International Ski Instructors Congress (Interski) in Switzerland 2003, Korea 2007, Austria 2011, Argentina 2015 and Bulgaria 2019.The purpose of the congress is to raise the levels of Ski Instruction internationally and to share teaching methods across the globe.

Mark is at the pinnacle of ski instruction. He trains, assesses and examines Ski instructors through all levels of Instructor qualification. This uniquely places him at the cutting edge of what is happening in Ski Coaching globally. He is a BASI Trainer and former member of the British Demonstration ski Team and represented the UK at the International Ski Instructors Congress in Norway in 1999 and Switzerland in January 2003, Austria 2011 and Bulgaria 2019. The purpose of the congress is to raise the levels of Ski Instruction internationally and to share teaching methods across the globe.

Celyn looked after our students in resort for many years before taking on the office managers job in 2020. If you have booked a course with ICE, you will no doubt have had some email contact with Cel. Originally from South Wales, she now lives in Dumfries and Galloway but generally visits at some point during the courses and can be found partying hard in the Blue Note when she does.

Nicole attended the BASI Level 3 program with ICE in 2022 and became an Level 3 (ISIA) in April. She is now working towards her Level 4. Along with partner in crime Jade, Nicole looks after the ICE social media and is based in resort during the course and on hand to help with any resort based issues. Also expect to see Nicole training alongside the Level 3/4 groups during the winter....just don't necessarily expect to be able to keep up.

Jade attended the BASI Level 3 program with ICE in 2022 but was injured towards the end of the course, so missed the opportunity to do the technical and teaching exams at the end of the season. She will be attacking the hill to set the record straight in 2023!

Jade is a very capable photographer, and also deals with the ICE social media alongside Nicole, so if she points the camera at you, there is a good chance you will feature in our next Instagram post.Jade will be in resort during the course and on hand to help with any resort based issues you may have.