Your first three days on skis, with a private instructor beside you from your first step to your first turn. Start on the bunny slopes, finish linking turns on your own. All equipment included.
This course is for people who have never skied before. You do not need any experience, any fitness level beyond being able to walk comfortably, or any equipment — we provide everything. If you are visiting Gulmarg and want to find out whether you enjoy skiing, three days is enough to go from standing on snow for the first time to linking your first real turns on the bunny slopes.
Here is exactly what happens on this course, day by day. Your instructor adjusts the pace to you.
Morning stretching and a warm-up, then you meet your equipment and learn how to carry it, put it on and take it off. You will walk in ski boots, take your first steps on skis, learn the snow plough position that controls your speed, and practise getting up after a fall.
Side-stepping uphill on your skis, side slipping across a slope, a stronger snow plough for firmer braking, balance training on gentle gradients, and your first time using the ski lift.
Long turns and short turns, the duck walk for moving across flat snow, mid-slope skills, and your first run on an intermediate slope. Your instructor reviews your progress and you receive your course completion certificate.
You receive a course completion certificate at the end of your course.
All ski equipment is provided. You only need to bring:
We can arrange accommodation, meals and transport at any budget. Tell us what you need and we will send one combined cost.
The 3-day course covers the fundamentals. If you want to ski intermediate slopes confidently before you leave, the extra days make a real difference.
Five days to go from your first steps on snow to skiing intermediate slopes on your own. Two extra days beyond the beginner course make the difference between learning the basics and actually skiing.
View courseA full week on the mountain. Enough time to move from your first day on snow to parallel turns on intermediate slopes — or, if you already ski, to sharpen your technique until it feels natural.
View courseThree days is enough to learn the fundamentals: balance, speed control, stopping and basic turns. Most beginners finish able to link turns on the bunny slopes. If you want to ski intermediate slopes confidently, the 5-day course gives you extra time.
None at all. This course starts from zero. Your instructor begins with how to put on ski boots and ends with you making turns.
Light snow or cloud is normal and lessons run through it. If conditions are genuinely unsafe, your instructor pauses the session and makes up the time later that day or the following day.
Yes, subject to instructor and date availability. Let us know as early as possible so we can hold your instructor for the extra days.
Yes, with their own private instructor. Younger children may have shorter daily sessions, and the instructor adjusts the pace and activities to their age and attention span. Tell us their age when you enquire.
Tell us your dates and how many people are coming. We will confirm instructor availability and send you a full cost, including any accommodation or transport you need.
