La magie des sommets — ski camp at Saint-Jean d'Arves

The week centres on alpine skiing: the organiser prints five ESF sessions — lessons with instructors of the French national ski school from the resort — ending with a test and a badge awarded at the end of the stay. Children are taught in ability groups, and the youngest have the resort's Piou Piou club. Those lessons are extended by further supervised ski sessions with the camp's activity team. The organiser does not describe the programme as a language or academic course, so there is no weekly lesson count in the teaching sense. A helmet is required and is provided by Label Évasion.

The price covers meals, accommodation and activities for the full seven days: Label Évasion states that "les repas, l'hébergement et les activités sont compris dans le prix du séjour". Travel is organised from Paris and back; the organiser opens departures from Paris on its site and asks families wanting a departure from elsewhere, or bringing a child directly to the centre, to request it by e-mail. No supplement is printed for that. Ski equipment is stored with the local rental shop.

The group stays in the organiser's own chalet in the village of Saint-Jean d'Arves, in the Maurienne valley facing the Aiguilles d'Arves. Label Évasion describes rooms of two to six beds with storage, and puts the slopes about 500 m from the chalet. Equipment is kept at the local rental shop rather than in the building. The organiser does not print a street address for the chalet, only the village.

Meals are included in the price of the stay, as the organiser states directly. Label Évasion does not publish a menu, a daily meal count or a description of special diets for this camp, so nothing further is claimed here.

Three activities are printed for this camp. Alpine skiing, with five ESF sessions, ability groups, a Piou Piou club for the youngest and additional supervised sessions with the activity team. An introduction to the avalanche transceiver (DVA) and safe-skiing habits, led by a high-mountain guide, where children learn search and rescue technique and the basic rules of mountain safety. A snowshoe outing led by a mountain guide, which the organiser describes as playful and instructive, covering the characteristics of snow, the local environment and respect for local wildlife and plants.

The camp uses the ski area of Saint-Jean d'Arves, with the slopes about 500 m from the chalet, and the resort's Piou Piou club for the youngest skiers. Ski equipment is stored at the local rental shop. In the chalet the rooms hold two to six beds with storage. Beyond the helmet, which is compulsory and supplied by Label Évasion, the organiser does not itemise equipment.

Label Évasion is a French association founded in 1993 that organises colonies de vacances for children and teenagers; it is approved by Jeunesse & Sports and registered with Atout France under IM094110031. For this camp the organiser prints the make-up of the team: one BAFA-qualified adult for every eight young people, a BAFD-qualified director, and a PSC1-qualified first-aid assistant. Teaching is by ESF instructors for skiing and by a high-mountain guide for the avalanche-transceiver and snowshoe activities.