As an Altituder you’ll get to spend an incredible winter season at Altitude Mission, living in a chalet full of people like you -  young Christians who love Jesus and love skiing.  You are on full time mission sharing the life changing love of Jesus throughout the season to seasonniares. 

You get to pull on the fabled yellow Ski Angels jacket (once you’ve passed your training), and save lives on the mountain.  You will serve every single day whilst skiing six days a week.   You will grow closer to God throughout the season growing in your faith.  You will make friends for life.  In fact that’s what your main goal will be - to go out and make friends, it’s that simple.  

Altituders are the glue that makes up the community of Chalet Altitude.  You’ll welcome in seasonnaires, weekly visitors and dinner guests with love and no judgment. You’ll have faith chats on chairlifts.  You’ll worship. You’ll pray for people.  You’ll live differently to your peers - you’ll be the light on the hill.  You’ll have the best time of your life and you’ll keep coming back for more!

There is a rhythm to your days at Altitude Mission.  We start the day with Bible and prayer time and then we have breakfast altogether.  Here, there’s a chance to practice speaking in public, with “3 Minutes of Fire”.  After breakfast we head out skiing - a great time to meet up with seasonnaires, to ski with our Ski & Servers, or to head off on your own for some quiet time with God on the slopes. 

For the chalet to run smoothly we have a rota so each day you’ll have a different job to do - it could the bread run, or making breakfast; you might be on washing up breakfast, in which case you’ll meet up with everyone on the slope when you’re done; you might be part of the worship team and needed for practice; or you might be on dinner prep with our cook - by the end of season you’ll be able to cook a meal for 25!  Whatever it is, there’s always a way to serve, and your downtime fits in around that.

In the afternoon, a team will meet up for a Ski Angels shift.  This involves grabbing the yellow jacket, taking your First Aid equipment and heading up first to the Folie Douce, then to the Ronnie, the two main apres-ski bars on the slopes in Meribel.  We work in pairs to help skiers to get home safely - it could be as simple as finding their skis, or carrying a pair of skis up the slope to the lift, or it could be more serious such as coming across someone unconscious on the slopes.  You’ve been fully trained so you’ll know what to do.  Serious situations happen rarely but they do happen, and we’re there to save lives on the mountains.  The rest of the time, a Ski Angels shift is a lot of fun. 

If you’re not on Ski Angels duty that day you can enjoy some apres-ski yourself or head back and chill at the chalet.  Dinner is all together, usually at 7pm and often with people who pop in for dinner.  Afterwards there’s often an evening activity consisting of worship, or communion, Thankful Friday or other chalet events. Once this has finished you can head out to the bars to meet with friends. 

One day a week, we’ll head back to the chalet from the slopes earlier than usual and have a seminar either online or in person.  We’re all about giving you opportunities to strengthen your walk with Jesus and we’ll give you the tools to do this.

Every Wednesday we open our doors and welcome in around 200 seasonnaires for Beer & Burgers.  You may be on Welcome, or on flipping burgers, or the runner between the burger station and the kitchen.  As you can imagine with that many guests, there’s a job for everyone. It’s a fantastic evening, and afterwards we all head out to the bars, knowing that Thursday is chalet day off - the perfect sabbath chance to recharge your batteries. 

Each Saturday is chalet changeover day. We muck in together to deep clean the chalet in between Ski & Servers leaving and arriving. You’ll be cleaning the toilets, scrubbing the kitchen, laying the fire etc. 

On Sundays we hold an evening church service in the small mountain chapel, and as an Altituder, you’ll be heavily involved with the running of this service - you could be on set-up, in the tech team, on worship, or you could be leading the service, or preaching.  We’ll encourage you to explore your gifts and practice using them.

Altitude Mission isn’t just a gap year in the Alps. It’s a season of living on purpose.

You’ll join a community reaching seasonal workers, locals, and visitors with the life-changing love of Jesus. Through hospitality, discipleship, and daily outreach, you’ll grow in faith, character, and confidence as you serve in one of the most unique mission fields in Europe.

This is mountains, mission, and deep community, all woven together.

There is no other place like Altitude and there is no other ski season like Altitude Mission. It will be a life-changing experience where you will go deeper in your faith, be bold as you talk to anyone and everyone, embrace outreach, be challenged to try out your gifts, stretch yourself as you learn a new skill, step out as you help run a church, learn what it means to be a disciple, grow in so many ways and truly see God at work all whilst living in an incomparable Christian community.

Altitude Mission is your chance to make friends for life, to meet hundreds of people from all walks of life, to share your faith on a chairlift, to share experiences with someone twice your age over dinner, to pray for healing, to chat to a seasonnaire at an après-ski bar, to show love to someone who’s lost.  You will create memories and friendships to last a lifetime.

As a Ski Angel, you will get be saving lives on the mountain, both physically and spiritually. You will help others walking up the slope carrying skis, you’ll help people find their lost skis. We’ll give you the training you need for outdoor First Aid, and drug and alcohol awareness.  With the right training, experience and attitude, in future seasons, you’ll be able to join our festival teams as we go to other ski resorts to serve as Ski Angels.

You get to run a church - this is your chance to stretch yourself, to try a preach, to lead worship, to stand at the front and welcome people. Or maybe you’re a technical wiz.  You can run the sound desk, or the visuals.  And we always welcome new ideas and new approaches, so bring innovation, and enthusiasm and let’s see where God takes the church at Altitude.

We have seen how hard it is to live out your faith whilst doing a ski season without the support of fellow Christians. Altitude allows you to have that ski season you've always wanted whilst getting support throughout the entirety of the season. You’ll keep accountable to those around you, and grow in your own faith. 

At Altitude Mission, you will do so much. You will be challenged and exhilarated in equal measure, you will laugh till it hurts, you will be bold by showing people God’s love, you’ll ski/snowboard like you’ve always dreamed, sing God’s praises as you sit on a mountain top, help run a church, you will put others before yourself whilst also learning new skills in and around the chalet. To top it all off, you might find yourself watching the sunset, with a beer in hand, overlooking all of the Three Valleys with the best bunch of people you’ve ever met.