Josh didn’t just throw a dart at a map of the Alps. He chose Les Gets because it’s famously family-friendly and not too flashy. The man has two young children, so he needed a resort where the biggest hazard isn’t a techno nightclub, but a rogue snowball fight with a five-year-old. Les Gets delivers this in spades: it’s got a “Slow Zone” for learners, a tubing park that looks like a clown car exploded, and more hot chocolate stands than you can shake a ski pole at.
But here’s the hilarious twist: Josh hates the cold. The man once complained on his podcast that wearing a woolly hat makes him feel like a “sad parsnip.” So why on earth did he strap two planks of wood to his feet and hurtle down a mountain made of his nemesis? Because his wife, Rose, is apparently very persuasive, and also because he’s a secret adrenaline junkie who moans as a defence mechanism. He admitted on The Last Leg that he actually, whisper it, loved skiing—but only after he’d spent the first three days swearing at a blue run.
The Chairlift of Horrors (And a Surprising Fact)
Let’s talk about the specific run that nearly broke him. Josh Skiied the famous “L’Envers” run—a red (intermediate) track that winds through the trees. Sounds lovely, right? Wrong. It’s a narrow, icy ribbon that locals call “The Revenge of the Frost Giants.” Josh described it as “like trying to ice skate down a spiral staircase while wearing a bin bag.” He fell three times in twenty metres. Three times. His knees looked like two angry tomatoes.
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And here’s the surprising fact you can use to impress your friends: Les Gets has a secret underground ski tunnel. No, it’s not a James Bond lair—it’s a 300-metre-long tunnel that connects two slopes so you don’t have to take a bus. Josh used it to avoid a particularly exposed chairlift that gave him vertigo. He later joked that the tunnel “smelt of wet socks and regret,” which is basically the scent of every ski resort ever. The man has a nose for misery, bless him.
