As luck would have it, the death of L’Alpe du Grand Serre came a few hours after the announcement of the death of the immense Michel Blanc. The actor, who died at 72, was one of those who popularized skiing through the enormous success of the film Tanned people go skiing released in 1979 and filmed in Val d’Isère. If the Savoie resort is doing very well, this was not the case for L’Alpe du Grand Serre. In deficit for several years, the family resort located less than an hour from Grenoble was living on a drip, surviving only thanks to public subsidies.
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Friday October 4, the community of communes of Matheysine decided not to renew the management contract with the company Sata which operated the ski lifts, reports France Bleu Isère.
It was created more than eighty years ago
When it was created in the 1930s, it was called “La Morte”, in reference to the pass located in the Taillefer massif where it is located. Since Friday, the L’Alpe du Grand Serre resort has regained its original name. If the activity is not going to stop completely and should continue in summer, it is the end of the ski lifts. This is a huge blow for all the professionals at this resort located at an altitude of 1,368 meters and who were preparing its opening in two months.
According to France Bleu, the deficits had become too heavy for the community of municipalities to bear. Its project to convert it into a “four-season” resort was slow to come to fruition and had not received the financial support expected in the face of particularly heavy investments. According to its president, the community of communes of Matheysine has already paid 2.8 million euros since 2017 to pay off operating debts. Enormous for a community of less than 20,000 inhabitants.