Val Thorens review: Why Europe’s highest ski resort is anything but soulless Life&Style There’s a snobbishness that persists about Val Thorens. There’s the view that it’s “soulless” because it’s a comparatively new resort, having opened in 1971. But actually that was so long ago now that the first people born here are facing retirement. One of these people is Aurélie Rey, the daughter of one of the founders [...]