Area Daily: Ice Karting in Courchevel, France

Ice karting is the latest craze to hit the ice. It's fast and furious and will test your driving skills to the limit!

Made possible through the introduction of studded tires, this winter cousin of go-karting is a totally new experience requiring very different driving skills. It is an activity where technique wins over outright speed.

Performed all over the globe from the US and Canada right across the pond to Europe, ice karting is springing up at many ski resorts on outdoor circuits or around oval tracks on indoor ice skating rinks.

So have a go at learning to drive on ice! Whitetracks will organize ice karting for you on a specially constructed outdoor ice track in Val D’Isere. And if you’re headed to Courchevel or Meribel, they will organize indoor ice karting for you around an oval circuit on the Olympic Ice Skating Rink in the Park Olympic that was specially built for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Meribel, Three Valleys.

Tip: just make sure to book in advance- this is quickly becoming a popular sport and the track books up fast.