The Italian Alps are well known for skiing and offers dozens of mountain resorts, from the duty free zone of Livigno, to the glitzy Cervinia. However, what many people don’t realise is that it’s possible to ski on Mount Etna in Sicily - Italy’s mafia soaked Mediterranean Island, which lies off the south coast of the country.

Mount Etna is the largest and highest volcano in Europe, and one of the most active volcanoes in the world; and is in a state of almost continuous state of eruption. Sicily was chosen by the Gods of Olympus as the scene for their sagas of love and war, passion and revenge, and it was Mount Etna - the realm of Vulcan, god of fire - that was the home of the one-eyed monster known as the Cyclops; today it’s still a land of fire and latent wrath.
Building a ski area on an active volcano is not without its difficulties; continuous eruptions and lava flows have repeatedly damaged or destroyed various lifts systems in the past. In October 2002, rivers of boiling lava poured down from Mount Etna’s crater, engulfing small buildings, incinerating pine trees, pushing over ski lift pylons, knocking down power lines […]

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