Meet Pierre Paret-Solet, the Wizard of Oz

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Meet Pierre Paret-Solet, the Wizard of Oz
Pierre Paret-SoletSki InstructorOz-En-Oisans
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A locally born ski instructor in the ski village of Oz-en-Oisans, France, is known for his exceptional skills and ability to handle various situations with a smile.

Who’s the Wizard of Oz? As far as parents in our group are concerned, his name is Pierre Paret-Solet — a locally born ski instructor who can wrangle frozen boot bindings with the flick of a wrist, scoop up myriad lost poles while skiing backwards and cajole wilful children without remotely raising his voice.

And if, say, just as you sit down to lunch a snowboard happens to shoot off the side of a slope because the kids were using it as a sledge, he can retrieve it before your tartiflette hits the table. And all with a genuine smile. Welcome to Oz. Constructed in the 1980s, Oz-en-Oisans — or Oz 3300 to use its more modern moniker — is a little ski village in France’s Isère region. An hour by road from Grenoble (two from Lyon), Oz is one of the most recent resorts to be built in the French Alps but, despite this, has the air of a traditional wooden chalet hamlet — a diminutive cluster of traditional Alpine buildings set around two ski lift

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