Summer ski is so cool

Phew, while Britons swelter with the hottest summer for centuries, we can happily advise heat-exhausted skiers the very best places summer skiing resorts in the world. Summer skiing takes place in the morning, leaving the rest of the day for more traditional summer activities, such as golfing, trekking, swimming in ice-cold lakes or see www.goodskiguide.com

Starting with our closest neighbours there is still skiable snow on France’s glaciers, where you can slow down just a day’s travel away, or same-day skiing in some high-level resorts.

Tignes is an easy choice and skiing on the Grande Motte glacier has 20 km of easy slopes up to 3600 metres. Plus a snowpark where you can ski then watch top pro racers training and there’s  plenty of room for good skiers and learners as this is an ideal beginner area.

Switzerland, most expensive area in the world, also has high-level skiing from atop the Matterhorn down to Italy’s Cervinia, also expensive, but well worth it for the scenery and bragging rights.

Austria also has some of the best summer skiing opportunities such as Hintertux, where British ski teachers and racers practice up until the snow melts or slushes up in August. Then there is a Good Ski Guide favourite of the Stubai glacier, just a 40-minute drive from fabulous Innsbruck, a beautiful Baroque city with plenty to amuse curious travellers and has an airport with direct flights from the UK.

• Do get ready for an early start to next season by starting pre-ski exercises up to three months prior to your first snow visit. So keep logging on for top tips and the best of the best ski gear.