Ski Dubai

This guide to Ski Dubai follows a resort that has offered the same trick since November 2005: step out of Dubai's forty-degree heat and back inside to a real, eighty-five-metre mountain built inside a shopping mall. You'll hear how five slopes and the world's first indoor black diamond run share the space with six thousand tonnes of real snow, remade from scratch every night by blast coolers and a water-recycling loop that channels the melt into the mall's air conditioning and gardens. Bring warm layers before you step through the doors.