BELLA COOLA HELI SPORTS EXPANSION
Who Says Size Doesn’t Matter
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Beat Steiner
Bella Coola Heli Sports
t. 604 932 3000
e. beat@bellacoolahelisports.com
Bella Coola, BC (April 15, 2009) - Bella Coola Heli Sports is excited to announce a massive extension to their tenured heli ski area.
The British Columbia government has granted Bella Coola Heli Sports an extension to their permitted heli skiing tenure. The total skiable area is now 10,700 square Kilometres (4,200 sq/m). This is 2,650,000 acres and is now the largest single heli skiing area in the world. The area is larger then the entire Swiss Alps, allowing guests to ski the equivalent of Geneva to Davos, without seeing a lift line up or indeed another person.
The consolidated BCHS tenure now stretches for more than 200kms along British Columbia’s Coast Range Mountains from the Dean River in the north, world famous for Steelhead fishing, to the slopes of Mt. Waddington in the south. At 4,019 metres (13,166 feet), Mt. Waddington is the highest peak entirely in British Columbia and has been featured in many Hollywood movies as a stand in for the Himalayas. The films “K2”, “Kundun” and “Seven Years in Tibet” were all filmed here because of the Himalayan scale of the slopes, glaciers and escarpments.
Most exciting, Bella Coola Heli Sports is now offering Heliski Safaris. This program starts at BCHS’s base of operation at Tweedsmuir Park Lodge in the Bella Coola valley. Guests will stay at this classic luxury wilderness lodge for 3-4 nights and then ski and fly 200 kms south along the spine of the Coast Range Mountains, the most spectacular stretch of mountains in British Columbia, to Mt. Waddington and BCHS’s Pantheon base of operation. Accommodation for the following 3-4 nights is at the White Saddle, an authentic western style cattle ranch.
Bella Coola Heli Sports has been in operation for 7 years and in this time has mapped and established over 500 runs. With the extension there is a lot of new exploring to be done and many new first descents for intrepid heli ski guests. BCHS expects that eventually there will be well over 1,000 runs mapped.
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